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It's far from uncommon for Americans to retire abroad—the combination of exotic surroundings, lower rent and cheaper medical care can be irresistible for a retiree with wanderlust and an undernourished nest egg. But Yanks aren't the only gray-haired migrants in North America: As Kathy Kristof reports this month for Financial Planning magazine, many Canadians are exploring the possibility of retiring in the U.S., drawn mostly by a tax code that treats them more gently than Canada's.
Nobody is certain exactly how many Canadians live in the U.S., though an estimated one million people hold dual Canada-U.S. citizenship. Canadians of all ages have certainly shown a preference for Florida's beaches over, say, Newfoundland's: According to an accounting firm cited by Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper, Canadian buyers have been involved in as many as 30% of Florida real estate purchases in the years since the housing crash.
But the bigger draw for someone of retirement age is the way that withdrawals from a Canadian retirement account are treated when the assets are moved to the U.S. Unlike with an American citizen's home-grown 401(k)s and IRAs, the Internal Revenue Service doesn't tax withdrawals of principal from an imported Canadian retirement account. "If Uncle Sam didn't give you a tax deduction for your contributions," Kristof explains, "the U.S. government doesn't expect you to pay tax on the principal."
Canadians would owe U.S. taxes on capital gains in their accounts. But Dale Walters, a financial planner who specializes in cross-border strategizing for Canadian expats, tells Kristof that Canadians can largely eliminate that liability by liquidating any stock holdings while their money is still under the maple-leaf flag. Walters says that his clients who move south typically lower their tax bills by anywhere from 25% to 50%; he also says that taxes at death are likely to be lower in the U.S. than they are in Canada.
(Of course, there's no shortage of other tax headaches that might accompany a cross-border move, including issues of proving residency; David Israelson of the Globe and Mail has more details in this recent piece.)
Walters tells Kristof that some of his clients take their expatriate status one step further, setting up a work history in the U.S. so that they can qualify for Social Security and Medicare benefits. Non-citizens can qualify for such benefits as long as they pay taxes into the respective systems for a certain predetermined amount of time. To make that possible, Walters recommends that his "snowbird" clients pick up consulting gigs for U.S. companies while they're in the country—or even, in some cases, that they buy U.S. businesses and pay themselves a salary.
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Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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There are several ways of setting mouse acceleration:
- by editing xorg configuration files
- the Template:Package Official package provides two programs that can be used to change those settings from a shell or a script:
- many Desktop Environments provide a configuration GUI for mouse settings. They should be easy to find and use.
Setting mouse acceleration
In xorg configuration
See Template:Codeline for details.
You can also assign settings to specific hardware by using "MatchProduct", "MatchVendor" and other matches inside class sections.
Using xset
To get the current values, use:
xset q | grep -A 1 Pointer
To set new values, type:
xset m ACCELERATION THRESHOLD
where ACCELERATION defines how many times faster the cursor will move than the default speed, when the cursor moves more than THRESHOLD pixels in a short time. ACCELERATION can be a fraction, so if you want to slow down the mouse you can use 1/2, and if 3 is slightly too fast, but 2 is too slow, you can use 5/2, etc.
To get the default settings back:
xset m default
For more info see Template:Codeline.
To make it permanent, edit xorg configuration (see above) or add commands to xprofile. The latter won't affect speed in a Display Manager.
Using xinput
First, get a list of devices plugged in (ignore any virtual pointers):
xinput list
Take not of the ID. You may also use the full name in commands if the ID is prone to changing.
Get a list of available properties and their current values available for modification with
xinput list-props 9
where Template:Codeline is the ID of the device you wish to use. Or
xinput list-props 'Bobs mouse brand'
where Template:Codeline is the name of your mouse given by Template:Codeline
Example, changing the property of Template:Codeline to 2:
$ xinput list-props 9 Device 'Bobs mouse brand': Device Enabled (121): 1 Device Accel Profile (240): 0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration (241): 1.000000 Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (243): 1.000000 Device Accel Velocity Scaling (244): 10.000000 $ xinput --set-prop 'Bobs mouse brand' 'Device Accel Constant Deceleration' 2
To make it permanent, edit xorg configuration (see above) or add commands to xprofile. The latter won't affect speed in a Display Manager.
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Well, I have an excuse!
I was in Italy^_^
Let's just say that I was celebrating there!
I must say, I have enjoyed writing about my passion and sharing my creative ideas with fellow geneabloggers and friends. When I started a year ago( April 16th 2009), I wasn't really sure that I would be able to keep it going, with my 3 little little kids, all the work I was already doing, and everything else.
It has been challenging at times, but overall, it has been fun, and it has also been a way to write my "creative journal".
I have appreciated each and every comment, and all the people that have spread the word about my blog, and my creative genealogy projects.
This blog has also given me the opportunity to be noticed and contacted by the organizers of the 2010 NEFH conference, which I was so happy to be part of, to share many of my ideas with so many genealogy enthusiasts like me, and even more, getting some input from them that might bring me to new future projects.
So, I am sorry I didn't post exactly on my blogiversary, but I am not joking when I say I was celebrating in Italy: what better way to celebrate your passion than to follow it?
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A beautiful new to me blog! Congratulations on your first blogiversary! You started it on my daughter's birthday! I will be following, looking forward to more!
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Happy blogiversary to you!
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Thank you for your kind words!^_^
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Over the last few years you have probably heard a lot about power meters and how cyclists are using power to train. We all know that cyclists produce power when we ride, but why is that useful to us? As an everyday cyclist, why is power important? And, most importantly, what is a power meter?
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Training with power is also an improvement over old methods, because it yields more consistent results. You can't really train to lower your heart rate—it just happens as a natural byproduct of becoming more physically fit. But you can train to improve power. Training with power opens up a whole can of worms that will be the subject of future blog posts, but there's some rough things to know.
When training with power, there are generally two important numbers to look for: maximum power output and maximum sustained power output. Maximum wattage output is a measure of your all-out, everything you got power. Generally, you can't sustain this for more than a few seconds—think the end of a sprint. This is the maximum amount of power you are capable of transmitting into your bike. The second number, maximum sustained power output, looks at how much power you can put out for a prolonged period of time. Generally riding at this threshold should be uncomfortable, but doable—think slogging up a long hill or mountain. There are specific tests you can do to find out each number, but we'll get into that in another post.
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Many complicated processes happen in a mother's womb as a baby begins to form. Between four and six weeks of a pregnancy, the baby's lip forms. During weeks six through nine, the roof of the mouth, known as the palate, forms. In a small number of cases, however, something goes awry and the lip and/or palate are not properly formed, resulting in cleft lip and cleft palate, a congenital abnormality.
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The NMSU team saw 17 clients at their November meeting. The NMSU Cleft Palate Center will see a varied group - from infants to young adults, coordinating their care throughout their growth and development. There is no cost for the evaluation on team day. If the family receives follow-up services after the team meeting, there may be a charge for these services. Families should check with their providers.
Youkyung Bae, assistant professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, is a speech scientist, and studies the acoustics of resonance disorders. She is part of the NMSU Cleft Palate Team.
"I provide some of the instrumental measures using state of the art equipment," Bae said. "This equipment provides quantitative, objective measures that can supplement the clinician's perceptual judgment. A clinician might say 'I hear very severe hypernasality in a certain patient,' a common problem for cleft clients. My severe level might be slightly different than someone else's severe level. So, if there are some numbers that can accompany those ratings, or perceptual judgments, I offer those quantitative measures and values, through the equipment, to supplement the clinician's perceptual judgment."
Salas-Provance, Trammel-Yeboah and Bae are only three members of the overall team, but integral to the successful care of cleft lip and cleft palate patients in southern New Mexico. The team approach to cleft care for children ensures that patients do not fall through the cracks or get lost in the system.
The next scheduled meeting of the NMSU Cleft Palate Team is Friday, March 22. The meeting will be held in the Edgar R. Garrett Speech and Hearing Center. If a family wants to be seen at the next team evaluation, all they need to do is call the Edgar R. Garrett Speech and Hearing Center at 575-646-3906 to make an appointment.
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29 March 2012
A Hierarchy of One? (11633)
1. "The question for this quiz was: Which of the choices are keywords that are needed to create an object type hierarchy? (with the word "hierarchy" in bold letters). You have marked the answer "CREATE TYPE" ([ 10065 ]) as correct with explanation "We use the CREATE TYPE statement to create an object type, so this is definitely needed!". Of course, it is obvious that you cannot create a type without CREATE TYPE keywords, but with "hierarchy" being bolded in the question I concluded that we only need to mark the keywords that are strictly used for creating object type hierarchies. That's why I left this answer unmarked. I think you should mark this answer as correct for everyone because of ambiguity in the question."
2. "In my opinion the keyword "INSTANTIABLE" is needed for at least one class because otherwise you can't instantiate an instance of any object in your hierarchy."
3. " I do not agree with your evaluation of the right answers. You have NOT mentioned that the hierarchy is supposed to have AT LEAST two levels. It is true that a hierarchy with only one level is trivial, but it is still a hierarchy. For such trivial hierarchies the first two choices are not mandatory. This is like the empty set in mathematics. It is still a set even it has no element. It is trivial but exists!"
And my responses:
1. I don't think you can say "Of course" I am correct, but then believe that the choice is not correct. I understand your concern about the word hierarchy being bolded, but it doesn't take away from the fact that you need CREATE TYPE to accomplish this.
2. INSTANTIABLE is the default for an object type and method, so I don't see why this would be needed.
3. While your objection may be theoretically correct, I think that it is plenty clear from the emphasis on hierarchy that the intention of the question was to identify the keywords needed to create a non-trivial hierarchy.
I do not believe that any change in scoring is required. Your thoughts?
Cheers, Steven
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I agree, there is no reason to adjust scoring based on any of the objections mentioned in the post. The question unambiguously asked which of the keywords are required to create an object type hierarchy. CREATE TYPE must be used when creating a type hierarchy regardless of whether or not it may be used for any other purpose. INSTANTIABLE is not required since its effect is implicit to type creation.ReplyDelete
I would argue that the third objection is not even theoretically correct. A hierarchy is a nested set. To be nested one object must be contained within another, therefore a hierarchy cannot have less than two elements and those elements must be at different levels.
Hello Steven,ReplyDelete
In my opinion, this quiz was one of the most clear and unambiguous ones that have ever been played on the Challenge.
I don't think that any score change should be done.
Again, it comes to the reason of why a player might have considered one choice as incorrect, and NOT because of that choice was indeed incorrect (ex. the CREATE TYPE).
This rather reminds us of the other quiz one day before, where the "IF AND ONLY IF" condition was relevant and emphasized as such in the quiz introduction as a strict requirement.
Here the quiz clearly asked for key words that are strictly necessary for creating a type hierarchy, but it did not specify in any way that these key words should be "reserved" exclusively for this purpose.
If so, then one who considered CREATE TYPE as incorrect should have also considered UNDER to be equally incorrect, because it is also used for defining object views hierarchies and not just
for object type hierarchies.
It is almost obvious that probably any single keyword taken in isolation is NOT reserved in SQL or PL/SQL for one and single purpose, and, if it is today, chances are that it will be used in some combined term (keywords sequence) in an upcoming version.
Regarding the hierarchy, I think that the term "hierarchy" by itself already implies the presence of at least two members where one is a "subordinate" of the other.
It is not the same as an empty set, which IS a "subset" of any other set.
Maybe this could have been the case if objects in SQL would have automatically inherited from an initial "ultimate root" object, like the "Object" class in Java, which forms by default a hierarchy with any other (single) class that has no superclass defined explicitly.
But a single object type in SQL is NOT a subtype of any other object type, if not explicitly specifying such a relationship.
SQL is kind of a "God-less" world for object types.
Thanks & Best Regards,
I agree that a hierarchy of one is not particularly useful and I read and answered the questions on the assumption of 2 or more.ReplyDelete
However, is an assumption of 2 or more a deviation from precedent in other questions?
Haven't there been questions that, in part, hinged on evaluation of empty (null) strings when "normal" usage would be for a populated string.
Haven't there been questions where we were tested on our handling of trivial cases with empty collections or no_rows_found?
One could argue that those are run-time differences as opposed to one-time DDL declarations. But we've had another quiz (with contested results) where we were supposed to notice the absence of a table which would have caused an error during the setup portion of the quiz (I believe it was with the existence/non-existence of the error logging table). I recognize that's not exactly the same thing here, but it does seem to my memory (which may be faulty) that we've been tested on our ability to find the trivial/empty cases.
So, while the competitor in me wants my points, especially as the quarter closes and I find myself short again. I think I have to argue that an assumption of 2 or more is not valid.
And, while I couldn't find a statement in the Object-Relational documentation that said "hierarchies have at least two types"
I did find this phrase on page 2-35
"All types that belong to a type hierarchy are assigned a non-null typeid that is unique within the type hierarchy. Types that do not belong to a type hierarchy have a null typeid."
Since that's as close as I could find to anything "official" I built a test case around it.
First I build a hierarchy of one (not final) and then a stand-alone type (final). Oracle does recognize them as distinct types.
CREATE TYPE plch_hierachy_one AS OBJECT(n NUMBER) NOT FINAL;
CREATE TABLE plch_hierachy_test (t plch_hierachy_one);
INSERT INTO plch_hierachy_test
VALUES (plch_hierachy_one(1));
SELECT sys_typeid(t) FROM plch_hierachy_test;
DROP TABLE plch_hierachy_test PURGE;
DROP TYPE plch_hierachy_one;
CREATE TYPE plch_hierachy_one AS OBJECT(n NUMBER);
CREATE TABLE plch_hierachy_test (t plch_hierachy_one);
INSERT INTO plch_hierachy_test
VALUES (plch_hierachy_one(1));
SELECT sys_typeid(t) FROM plch_hierachy_test;
DROP TABLE plch_hierachy_test PURGE;
DROP TYPE plch_hierachy_one;
Sean, if I understand your post properly, you are saying:ReplyDelete
1. Oracle says it's a type hierarchy if the typeid is not null.
2. If you do not include a FINAL clause on a type, then it has a typeid.
3. Therefore, a single type defined with NOT FINAL is a type hierarchy.
In other words, if you might at some point add a subtype under the type, then it's a type hierarchy now. 'Cause that's the only difference between the two types: whether or not it is defined as NOT FINAL.
Oh, and that also means that if we accept this logic, that NOT FINAL *is* needed but UNDER is not. So now we are down to just one choice (the first) that should be considered for re-scoring. And that makes me even less convinced of the need to do any re-scoring.
I think there is general agreement that the intention of the question is clear, and the point of a hierarchy is clear: you don't have just a single type.
I am not supposed to provide quizzes that trick people, and I think that if I had scored this according to the principle that "one type is a hierarchy" (UNDER is not needed), then I would hear from many players charging that I had tricked them. And what about how I scored NOT FINAL? If you think that one type makes up a hierarchy, you'd say NOT FINAL is not needed - and you'd be "wrong." And likely very irritated with me.
Tricky? Yes. A trickiness that has to do with semantics and not the least bit with code? Yes.
Oracle's not always great at providing clear definitions for many different terms in SQL and PL/SQL. So we often end up relying on a common sense understanding, and I think that's what works best and applies here.
Sure, you found a line of text that provided an insight into how and when Oracle assigns typeids (and I thank you for the effort!), but I think that is just a "side effect" of the need to have a typeid in place when the first subtype is created (when, I would say, the hierarchy is defined), not something that should be used to formalize a definition.
Basically I am a mathematician forced by life to become IT professional.ReplyDelete
From this perspective I have to say that:
1. If implicit assumptions were accepted in mathematics, then we would never have axioms.
2. The edge cases can prove to be a whole theory: one edge case is that given a line and a point outside of this line there is only one parallel to the line that contains that point.
3. I am totally against the logic that tends to skip some edge cases based on "common sense". Such kind of logic is useful in business analysis, in psychology too but I find it really senseless in a professional quiz where any case, trivial or not, useful or not is possible. A professional quiz should assume that in practice any case may be seen at least once.
4. Common sense has no limit well defined. Should one assume his common sense is better than others? If so, I can say a lot about many quizzes. Is this the idea of a professional quiz? To lead to endless debates on what may be considered common sense or not?
5. Common sense may contradict the logic: You have a hotel with infinite number of chambers and it is full. Can you accommodate 5 new tourists in that hotel? Common sense said NO, logic said YES. Logic is right.
I am sorry that you have been forced to be a programmer, but happy that you get to demonstrate the strength of your logic skills at the PL/SQL Challenge! It is overwhelming and I concede.
I will give credit for the UNDER choice to you and anyone else who submits feedback on this quiz that they believed a hierarchy of one was possible and legitimate.
I will change the quiz to state "hierarchy of at least two types".
Cheers, SF
Hello All,ReplyDelete
A propos the SYS_TYPEID function itself and its NULL or NON-NULL values for FINAL or NOT FINAL object types, I still think that a single object type defined as NOT FINAL is not yet a hierarchy, it only gives that object type the potential to become a member of a hierarchy.
I am little bit worried of the fact that, if such a clear quiz like this one could raise different interpretations, then from here on probably most of the authors will tend to introduce too extensive explanatory wording in each and every quiz presentation, in an attempt of trying to avoid any possible objections.
Logic does have of course its place of honor in every positive science, but we should still keep a notion of a "quiz wording common sense" (as opposed to daily life common sense) in what concerns the eventual problematic edge cases.
A small addition, like here specifying "hierarchy of at least two types" or in the quiz of March 27 "collection indexed by non-empty strings" would be ok, except, of course, for a quiz where the edge case itself was the whole point (like the quiz from March 22).
I am pretty sure that with too excessive wording, many quizzes would become too cumbersome and for many players, especially among those who are not native English speakers, playing will become more of a linguistic challenge than a PL/SQL challenge.
I am also a mathematician, and even share in a certain point Cristi's way of having become a programmer, (in addition to sharing our native language and probably our school)
but I think there should not be at any point any conflict between the two, I can just confirm after 30 years of programming that being a mathematician and mastering a strong logic can only help you to be a better programmer.
Thanks a lot & Best Regards,
Thank you for your answer. I must say your post has a strong reason when speaking about excessive wording.
I think Mr. Steven Feuerstein ended the dilemma which, in fact is inherent to any test where the response cannot be motivated. Sooner or later some questions will fall into different interpretations.
The fact that concerned me was not to apply penalties for those that answered by explicitly thinking at the singularity too.
Anyway, the PLSQL-Challenge quizzes are greater than I can express in words.
- Anonymous17 April, 2012 13:58
Strictly speaking an empty hierarchy (with no types in it) is hierarchy as well :)ReplyDelete


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Letter, Ke Kahn [Joseph N. Bourassa] to Mr. Thos. N. Stinson
Author: Bourassa, Joseph N.
Date: December 29, 1856
Joseph N. Bourassa, a Pottawatomie Indian who signed this letter with his Indian name of Ke Kahn, wrote to Thomas N. Stinson, a Tecumseh resident and Indian trader. Bourassa, writing from Council Grove, Kansas Territory, described his efforts to recruit musicians and dancers for a New Year's Eve ball.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Thomas Nesbit Stinson Collection, #511, Box 1, Folder 11
Item Number: 100251 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Balls (parties); Bourassa, Joseph N.; Celebrations; Community life; Council Grove, Kansas Territory; Dance parties; Entertainment; Ke Kahn; Morris County, Kansas Territory; Music; Musicians; Parties; Stinson, Thomas N.
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3rd...Black & White Sesame Cookies
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3rd...Black & White Sesame Cookies
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They are gorgeous Reese. Jane made the same thing here and she is facing problem, perhaps you could give her some tips. Not sure whether my suggestion fits right. I like how you made your pineapple tart. It's just a special and different shape than the usual ones.ReplyDelete
Thanks Quinn, I like the shape of the pineapple tarts too. That's what my mum used to do..:)ReplyDelete
Viewed Jane's cashewnuts cookies, but not so sure what's her problem. I'm happy to share with her my recipe too..:)
Hi Reese,ReplyDelete
Your cookies looked gorgeous! I love their shapes too! Possible to email me the recipe for Gula Melaka cookies recipe? Does it has desiccated coconuts? My email address is email@example.com. Take your time, no hurry. Thanks in advance!
They all look fantastic !! Thanks for sharing. Wishinng you Happy CNY to you too.ReplyDelete
Thanks Jane, I've sent you the recipes you want, hopefully you like it too..:)ReplyDelete
Thanks to you too, Sonia..:) Happy CNY!!
Dear Reese! Thanks for being so generous and share 3 tubs of the cookies with me!! I'm so lucky, heehee. ;) They are all so good! My favorite? It's the cashew cookies...so crisp, buttery and light. Yummy good! I can imagine you really spent alot of time baking in your kitchen...so many of them! But great job my good friend, you did yourself and your mum proud. ;D If I come on the 27th, I will bring a tub of my cookies for you too. ;)ReplyDelete
Hey BB, you are most welcome! I'm so happy to see you and got not enough time to bake the another three for you..;p The cashew cookies is my favourite too..:)Very happy that you like the cookies! Really hope that we can meet again on 27th..;)ReplyDelete
Your cookies are lovely! I like the way you shape your pineapple tarts, how cute! and I love to pleat kok-chai, but I am not game enough to do the deep-frying part ;pReplyDelete
Thanks HHB, like your nastars pineapple tarts too..:) Wishing you a very Happy Tiger Year and Good Health!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM
hi reese,ReplyDelete
Hope u can share ur recipe for gula melaka cookies. They look awesome! My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Hi Aquariusgal, sure. Hope you like it..:)ReplyDelete
Happy baking!
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 4:55 AM
Hi reese,ReplyDelete
Thks for the super quick reply and for so generously sharing this cookie recipe!:)
Dear Reese, why does your pineapple tart recipe needs butter and also margarine?ReplyDelete
Hi Mae,ReplyDelete
I used butter and margarine so that the pastry will not be too crisp or hard. This will somehow melt alittle in your mouth...:)
Hi Reese, your gula melaka cookies look really yummy! Can you share the recipe with me pls? My email is firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Hi Reese, your gula Melaka cookies look really yummy! Can you share the recipe with me pls? My email is email@example.com. Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi MuiJoo sorry for the late reply. Pls check ur email for the recipe. TqDelete


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Three members of the 2014 Nebraska baseball team, along with two Husker signees were picked on the final day of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Saturday afternoon.
Pat Kelly, Aaron Bummer and Zach Hirsch were each picked on Saturday after helping the Huskers reach the NCAA Tournament in 2014 for the first time since the 2008 season. Husker signees Luis Alvarado and Garett King were also selected, joining fellow signees Monte Harrison and Jakson Reetz, who picked on Thursday and Friday.
Kelly was the first to hear is name called when he was picked by his home state Minnesota Twins with the fifth pick in the 12th round. A three-time All-Big Ten selection, including first-team honors the past two seasons, Kelly is a native of Red Wing, Minn.
Kelly is the first Husker selected in the top-15 rounds of the draft since 2011, when Cody Asche was a fourth-round pick by the Philadelphia Phillies. Kelly is also the third Husker taken by the Twins in the last three drafts, joining Chad Christensen (2013) and Travis Huber (2012).
Bummer and Hirsch were both taken in the 19th round, with Bummer being selected with the third pick by the Chicago White Sox, while Hirsch went eight picks later to the Milwaukee Brewers. Hirsch was the second player with Husker ties picked by the Brewers, as Milwaukee snagged Harrison with the 50th overall pick in the second round on Thursday night.
Alvarado became the third Husker signee picked in the draft when the Boston Red Sox took him with the second-to-last pick in the 33rd round. King then came off the board as the 10th pick in the 36th round by the New York Mets.
Saturday marked the first time since 2010 that the Huskers have had three players taken in the first 20 rounds of the draft. Michael Mariot (8th – Kansas City), Ryan Hughes (16th – Oakland) and Mike Nesseth (17th – Philadephia) were each picked in the first 20 rounds of the 2010 draft.
Kelly's selection marked the 36-straight year that at least one Husker has been picked in the MLB Draft.
Pat Kelly | JR | 2B (Minnesota Twins – 12th Round)
Kelly has been one of the top hitters in the Big Ten the last two seasons, while also ranking as one of the best infield defenders in the league. He led the Huskers in hits (76), RBIs (55) and home runs (4) in 2014. Kelly led the Huskers in hits each of the past two seasons and his 55 RBIs in 2014 were the most by a Husker since 2010 when Adam Bailey drove in 57 runs. Defensively he committed just three errors all season in 315 chances, a fielding percentage of .990.
Kelly became the 22nd player in school history to notch 200 career hits, and ended his junior year ranked 20th in school history with 212 hits. He has also started the past 135 straight games for the Huskers, including every game of the past two seasons.
Aaron Bummer | JR | LHP (Chicago White Sox – 19th Round)
Saturday marked the second time Bummer has been selected in the draft, as he was a 31st-round pick by the New York Yankees in 2011 out of high school, but instead chose to come to Nebraska.
Bummer worked as a reliever during his freshman season in 2012 and started in the bullpen as a sophomore before joining NU's weekend rotation during Big Ten play in 2013. The 6-2 lefty worked exclusively as a starter in 2014, throwing 89.0 innings over 15 starts. He led the Huskers in 2014 in strikeouts with 56, including a team-best 16 strikeouts looking.
Through his junior season, Bummer has posted a 11-6 record with a 3.06 ERA. He also tossed his first career complete game during the 2014 season, as he capped a series sweep of Ohio State at Hawks Field.
Zach Hirsch | SR | LHP (Milwaukee Brewers – 19th Round)
After working as a starter during his sophomore season in 2012, Hirsch made the move to the bullpen in 2013 and was one of the top relief arms in the country this season. A third-team All-Big Ten selection in 2014, Hirsch was also one of 50 relievers nationally to be named to the Midseason Stopper-of-the-Year List.
Hirsch led the Huskers with a 1.72 ERA in 2014 and held opposing batters to a .193 average. The 6-4 lefty's 31 appearances were the most by a Husker since Brett Jensen made 33 appearances in 2005.
Hirsch struck out a career-high 50 batters in 52.1 innings of work, while posting a 5-2 record and four saves. His 50 strikeouts ranked third on the team to starters Aaron Bummer (56) and Chance Sinclair (52).
Luis Alvarado | HS (Puerto Rico Baseball Academy) | RHP/INF/OF (Boston Red Sox – 33rd Round)
Alvarado was a late addition to Nebraska's signing class, as he signed a letter of intent in April. The 6-5 native of Salinas, Puerto Rico, has an athletic frame and could play in the field or pitch for the Huskers.
Tabbed as an second-team underclass All-American in 2013 by Perfect Game, Alvarado earned first-team All-Canada/Puerto Rico honors in 2014. The scouting service ranked Alvarado as the No. 3 high school player in Puerto Rico and the No. 165 high school recruit overall.
Alvarado attended Montverde Academy in Florida in 2013, before returning to Puerto Rico for his senior season.
Garett King | HS (Orange County Lutheran) | RHP (N.Y. Mets – 36th Round)
The Nebraska coaching staff was able to pull King away from Anaheim, Calif., to sign with the Huskers last fall. The 6-3 righty was tabbed as the No. 18 right-handed pitcher in the state of California by Perfect Game and the No. 187 righty in the country. King was a 2014 California Region honorable-mention pick by Perfect Game in 2014 after earning underclass high honorable-mention All-American honors last season.
As a junior in 2013, King helped the Lancers to a runner-up finish in the Trinity League in after the team won the title in 2012. He also competed at the 2013 PG WWBA World Championships with Team Evoshield in Jupiter, Fla.
2014 MLB Draftees
Monte Harrison | Round 2 (Milwaukee Brewers)
Jakson Reetz | Round 3 (Washington Nationals)
Pat Kelly | Round 12 (Minnesota Twins)
Aaron Bummer | Round 19 (Chicago White Sox)
Zach Hirsch | Round 19 (Milwaukee Brewers)
Luis Alvarado | Round 33 (Boston Red Sox)
Garett King | Round 36 (New York Mets)
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Hello, I have been wanting to get this off of my chest for a while.
Richard Dawkins together with other "Great" atheists (Hitchens, are commonly seen as the "Leaders" of atheism. Everywhere i turn people rally behind them without hesitation. I have no problem with agreeing with someone and supporting them, but since joining this site and communicating with atheists across the web i am sad to say that I have been pressured into supporting anything they (or other popular atheists) say or do. As you can tell from the title, I don't like them, I find most of the current big time atheist to be rude, harsh, condescending, arrogant, men who happen to be smart. They spout the word "evidence" but as far as i can tell, only use evidence that supports their own views. They are incredibly anti-theist outright insulting those with faith, while i do not like religion I would never dream of telling someone that one way of thinking is correct or insulting them for their beliefs. For the most part they are BRILLIANT scientists, and yet they completely discredit anything if it has the slightest lack of extraordinary evidence or if a religious person says it. I may be wrong, but isn't science about looking for the truth, accepting new ideas and testing them, admitting when you are wrong? Isn't science meant to be unbiased? "A sentient all-powerful being/force, that existed before the rest of the universe, willingly and with intent created the universe and continues to exist beyond normal perception interacting with the universe regularly and still with intent." okay, there might be many many MANY variations on that principle, but that is the premise of a lot of religions, Laughable? Yes. Incredibly unlikely? Yes. Goes against massive amounts of par-to-quality evidence? Yes. But it's still a scientific hypothesis, that as of writing this cannot be tested. As such It should be accepted as a possible if-unlikely truth until it can be (dis)proven. We have diss-proven many things that religion spouts or claims in their holy books, but that is disproving an element of the religion, not the existence of a god. Dawkins has admitted this, yet he continuously dismisses any arguments against his views unless they come from one of his fellow atheist scientist buddies.
Ted Haggard, remember him? Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4bq9ypAdY
Yeah, he was probably putting on an act for the cameras, we only saw 3 minutes of him, described by himself. But you should be able to understand what he's saying.
And there is truth to it.
That is a brief summary of the problems i have with Dawkins and a lot of the other atheist "leaders". But the reason i'm posting this is the rest of the atheist community seems fine with agreeing with everything he/they say(s). I've been delving into physics lately, and i try to apply one thing i do agree with dawkins on, I can't believe what i read in a book, or the website tells me, or etc. I try to avoid making claims about topics i don't know all about, I try to remain skeptical towards new ideas until i can get evidence that has quality and quantity, I ask questions and don't take things at face value. These are things i truely support, but It seems to me I'm the only atheist that feels that way. i have been observing and found that athesim is becoming almost as dogmatic and cruel as religion.
Anti-theism is on the rise, hatred is cast onto anyone who so much as prays at a dinnertable, if someone is a religious person expect them to be hated and ridiculed by this community regardless of anything other than the fact that they have a religion. Entire forums are set up for the purpose of laughing at religious people and ations (not just the extremist/fundy ones that are okay to laugh at sometimes)
People are mindlessly throwing out arguments that are often little more than: "X is wrong because there's ZERO evidence for it, but Y!, Y has evidence so it must be correct!" never going into any detail about the topic.
People are doing what i described earlier, dimissing things unfairly, while parading around a sliver of something they support.
The "Leaders" are followed blindly, mimicking a cult. if dawkins says something he is agreed with unconditionally by almost everyone, and if you are one of the few who don't agree with it, you are insulted and targeted for all sorts of things (Personal experience)
And everywhere people are trying to convert others into atheism.
A dogma is beginning to form, the atheist that i have observed are lining up to become just like the hardcore religious peoples they claim to be different from.
I joined this site and others with the expectation that I was going to meet people guided by logic, reason, quality evidence (Not just normal evidence.) instead of other's words. and mild = tolerance toward opposing viewpoints as we have nothing to lose if they disagree.
Instead i have found a group of self righteous, key phrase spewing, intolerant, hateful, followers who actively try to change a person's beliefs instead of presenting the alternative and letting that person act accordingly to what they are presented (the backbone of scientific thought and progress)
I could go into more detail, but honestly I'm tired as all get-out. In this post I stress that i am not talking about YOU or anyone else in particular, just what i have found. I posted this to voice my opinion about the current state of atheism, in a great tide of identical arguments and opinions I am standing out with one of my own that i am not basing off of any one Else's; it is an opinion that i came to by myself free of other's forcing it on me. Isn't that what free thought is all about?
Feel free to respond however you like, You can even go ahead and insult me and dismiss everything i said, just as i expect most will. I just wanted to get that off my chest.
Somewhat related note: I think I'm the only atheist with an opinion like this; the supernatural and paranormal science that studies it. Legitamit fields of study, even if the methods are frequently terrible. I think that some supernatural elements might just be natural elements that we just don't understand yet. (A long time ago, the concept of cold eluded the minds of of the time and was considered supernatural, but of course now we understand the absence of heat and can explain its workings.) I'm not saying all supernatural claims are true, just that they should not be dismissed immidiatly on the basis that they are considered supernatural. Ghost for example, I believe that there is somethting to these claims, or at least some of them. Consistent and observable patterns, large amounts of unexplained, undeniable phenomenon (Among some admittedly fake). Are they the spirits of the dead? I doubt it, but I see reason to look into the matter. The same goes for some other supernatural ideas that everyone here seems to hate.
And finally, I have a very difficult time getting behind Dawkin's precious gene-centered evolution.
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"And finally, I have a very difficult time getting behind Dawkin's precious gene-centered evolution."
Fine, now produce the scientific evidence (including peer reviewed papers) that refutes it.
"Yes. But it's still a scientific hypothesis, that as of writing this cannot be tested."
Then by defintion the existence of god is not a scientific hypothesis if it can't be tested. Thus the existence of god is a matter of faith which is belief without evidence, how can you not see that?
Daniel PD exhibits such sensitivity toward the poor theist's fragile faith:
"I would never dream of telling someone that one way of thinking is correct or insulting them for their beliefs."
After being told that I hate god, that I don't posses moral standards, that I am damned to hell, a patron of satan, and that my tongue ought to be cut out, I am sympathetic to a certain level of hostility returned to the theists by the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens. I can't imagine what their hate mail must look like.
And I write this as a person who is not an aggressive atheist, who doesn't bring up the subject, who has no bumper sticker . . .
BUT I do enjoy seeing some heavy artillery occasionally lobbed back at the faithful, even if it is proportionally like shooting back at a battleship with a BB gun.
I don't visit A/N to read clichéd Dawkins bashing that I can get pretty much anywhere else.
However, being the sensitive atheist that I am, allow me this observation.
Your essay reveals no hesitation to admit to having no faith in god(s). But you seem reluctant to abandon faith altogether. (a common trait amongst idealistic youth)
to quote you:
"I'm not saying all supernatural claims are true, just that they should not be dismissed immidiatly on the basis that they are considered supernatural."
No. They should be dismissed because they don't exist in the first place.
You so want to believe that the "unexplainable" is out there, that the term "supernatural" becomes, for you, unassailable. You seem to be saying that you are willing to consider supernatural explanations for unexplainable events.
You might have abandoned faith in god, but you have not moved beyond your need for faith.
Not necessarily a bad thing for youth.
Not exactly, I don't think that there is such a thing as supernatural, things classified as such are not exempt from the scientific method. Maybe we can't do it just yet, but in time we will be able to understand and test these things. Some of them, like the idea of a deity, are probably just delusions, but we can't jump to conclusions so fast. We've had centuries to examine religion and we still haven't disproved all of it, why should another unexplained thing be written off in moments?
In short, I don't believe things because I want to believe them, I actually never said I believed in supernatural things. I just think that a reason or explanation behind them has to exist. Maybe some are hoaxes, maybe some have bits of truth to them - we can't know until we begin looking, and we can't come to a conclusion for things on such a scale in haste.
Wishful thinking I'm afraid, however. if scientific evidence for the supernatural is ever discovered then that, in and of itself, will negate the idea of the supernatural. As it will, quite obviously, render it explainable thus undermining the idea that it is unexplainable and supernatural no ?
You might like to look at the following video it deals explicitly with the concept of "openmiindedness" and the acceptance of supernatural ideas based on no evidence
Also following on from your ramble about Richard Dawkins watch the following video "A Beautiful Mind" it may also "open YOUR mind" about him and his achievements in the field of evolutionary biology
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If we find ourselves in a simple semantic drain hole, the solution is simple. Until then, I'll take you at your word:
"We've had centuries to examine religion and we still haven't disproved all of it, why should another unexplained thing be written off in moments?"
"Unexplained" is different from "supernatural". Are you changing terminology here?
And just what is there about religion that needs disproving ??
"I actually never said I believed in supernatural things. I just think that a reason or explanation behind them has to exist."
How is it that you seek an explanation for something you don't believe in ??
Please give us all an example of something "supernatural", that requires a "reason or explanation".
(Of course, I mean something besides gravity)
Again, my point is that there is nothing supernatural. Sooo, to seek an explanation of things "supernatural" is to tacitly admit to believing in their existence . . . i.e. demonstrating "faith"; which, I then pointed out to you, seems to be a sign of an inability to abandon faith altogether, not just faith in the existence of a supreme being.
Knowing this helps me understand why you don't like Dawkins.
Though, I didn't have time to read thru your entire post, I read thru most of it.
I think, I know what you are trying to say. You describe yourself more as agnostic than atheist. Atheist do not believe in a God. Agnostics, as myself, feel we do not know. As an agnostic, I don't know if there is a God but...if there is one, I know he doesn't operate in the capacity we have been taught. There is no diety operating anything in this world. That's evident. However, there could be some truth to energy of the body. I think some things cannot be explained and there are paranormal activities. But as agnostic, I have to admit some things we just don't have answers to.
Sorry, but there are no real paranormal activities. You watch too much TV.
"And everywhere people are trying to convert others into atheism.
A dogma is beginning to form, the atheist that i have observed are lining up to become just like the hardcore religious peoples they claim to be different from."
allow me to address this issue.
first of all, i don't think that it is possible to convert any true believer. an analogy - i'm a headhunter. i get accused of "stealing" people all the time. i explain that it is impossible to steal anyone, that i only offer alternatives to those who already want to leave. it's the same with Religious people, they can't be stolen from their faith, no matter how good the argument against what they believe.
however, Atheism as a popular movement is in it's infancy. so many casual Christians don't really believe, and the movement's leaders are pivotal in providing a platform for those who are looking to escape. some use a calm approach, others more hostile. ultimately, you will find lots of different ways to approach this as the movement matures.
as for your comment about dogma, well, there are some pretty useful quotes and/or facts that Atheists use to debunk religion. not everyone can be creative enough to invent their own. i have some things that i use that are personal thoughts, but i also borrow from others who have popularized some of the best arguments. you can call it dogma if you like, but no one has to accept them or treat them as equally valid to be an Atheist. therein lays the difference, imo. and quite frankly, many of my personal thoughts that i had when i was young and first became an Atheist i've seen reiterated by many of the famous New Atheists.
I agree with much of what you said, particularly (as I infer from it) that it is in service of truth to avoid confirmation bias that is the currency of so many self-congratulatory communities, this one included. I don't agree with all that Dawkins has said. In particular, I think that he too easily dismisses group selection. But I recognize that his understanding of these matters is far superior to mine. I'm a little confused when I hear some speak of him as stridently preaching anti-theism. From what I've heard and read, he seems like a kindly old uncle (though I think he's a bit younger than me) patiently laying out his world view in a clear and mostly non-judgmental way. That view naturally leads to atheism, and in certain social contexts anti theism.
Hitchens was a different sort of critter -- never pulling a punch, and I admired him for very different reasons. I've noticed that since the passing of the Hitch, Dawkins has made some comments that seem more reflective of what his dear departed friend might have drunkenly spouted, and I say "BRAVO"!
I've been an athiest almost as long as I've known how to walk, and most of the long time since have lived among deeply religious people. I get it that adopting a position cemented against those opposing risks isolation from what may well be good ideas. It's an ongoing struggle. When I was younger I adhered to a philosophy of live and let live relativism -- that other belief systems were as valid as mine, and I still mostly live that way. But when a few devout believers extended their philosophy to flying airplanes into buildings I had to re-think things.
I no longer think that it's moral to hold one view in equal weight to another without good reason. I've come to think that it is important and necessary to call out irrational beliefs, and in fact immoral to fail to do so. And so I've become more confrontational and more insistent on validation of any belief that seems to me to be unsupported. In short, I've become a bigot on the side of reason, which is what Hitchens so much more capably was.
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Wait, so Russia is Kira? No wonder he irks me.
Even though, truthfully, Ivan and Aether have gotten mixed up for me in the past (seriously I'm not sure which is which from the first two names you guys had when I first joined here. Sorry )
To be honest, I was actually kinda happy to see a critical review on Golden Sun, though I had wished it was more in-depth like my reply to it. But now that I know that Russia's Kira, it makes me feel like I was trolled.Which probably explains his PM to me after I posted. All he really had was "HAHAHAHAHA". :/
Some reviews aren't reviews at all. They're meant to provoke and raise the ire of a community. Trash talking golden sun on a golden sun community, for example, is not an example of a solid review - it's an example of trolling. You need to be more in depth, discuss the good and the bad. Don't relish over it like some slathering fanboy, but don't just flat out call it trash and ignore all the good that went in it as well.


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PORTLAND — The Portland Pirates filed a lawsuit against its home arena, the Cumberland County Civic Center, Sept. 6 after a breakdown in lease talks that hockey team officials said could force them to play elsewhere or even put them out of business.
Neal Pratt, chairman of the civic center board of trustees, countered that the venue is prepared to seek another sports franchise to replace the Pirates as tenants in Maine's largest market.
The stalemate comes less than two years after hockey team and civic center officials enthusiastically advocated side-by-side for a $33 million countywide bond for renovations to the arena. That work is ongoing now.
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"The purpose of the lawsuit is to get the home ice back for the Pirates, (their) fans and the public," attorney Harold Friedman, representing the team during a Friday afternoon news conference, said. "That has been threatened to be taken away from the Pirates by the civic center."
Major sticking points in the lease negotiations center around the division of revenues generated by concessions and advertising in the venue. The team initially sought 57.5 percent of the revenues from all concession sales and 50 percent of so-called "above-ice" advertisements displayed inside the civic center, terms Friedman said the civic center trustees cemented legally in an April 17 document.
The trustees in June told team officials the Pirates could not profit from the sale of alcohol because they did not have a state liquor license, so the two parties discussed increasing the team's percentage of revenue from the nonalcoholic concessions to make up the difference in income lost by not getting a share of the alcohol sales.
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The team in its lawsuit countered that 65 percent will not be enough, and accused the trustees of further eliminating the team's share of the advertising revenue in their next draft of the lease proposal.
No agreement between the sides was reached by an Aug. 29 deadline set by trustees, after which the arena managers allegedly reserved the right to book other events for the 25 dates previously set aside for Pirates home games.
The team was already expecting to play 13 of its home games at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston while civic center renovations continue through December.
Friedman said Friday if the team does not get a court ruling cementing its 25 game dates by Friday, Sept. 13, it will have to begin looking to schedule those games elsewhere, likely at the Colisee. Friedman filed a motion to expedite the case.
The civic center seats 6,700 people, and the Pirates say they draw an average of 4,000 fans per game.
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Pratt said the Pirates' characterization of the dispute – and its consequences – are meant to "create sympathy from the public." But he said while the Cumberland County Civic Center was willing to break even on its arrangement with the team, offering more than the venue trustees did in their most recent proposal would have put county taxpayers in a position where they were "subsidizing the profits of the team."
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I'll give this a try if I can find a copy. I had a go at LOTR online but was very put off by quests that had you killing wildlife like some redneck. Not to mention the very boring gameplay.
You may have misread my comment :) . I'm an animal rights supporter, environmentalist, and vegetarian as an ethical principle so I despise games that force you to kill animals as part of their questing or storyline. Runes of Magic is really bad for it. They even have you killing ents. As a personal quest I got a character to level 20 without killing animals (or ents) before dumping that game.
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- misplacedpom said...
I read a review of this in the NYTimes last year and have been meaning to read it. Although at the time the review came out I was in the middle of a bed bug infestation myself so I thought I'd give myself both time and distance before I read it. I'm glad to hear it was worth the wait!
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I've heard about that amazon fish - for years it was believed to me an urban myth, I think
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Frank Ascione, PhD, is the first professor to serve as the new American Humane Endowed Chair and executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver (DU). This position is significant because it is a collaboration between a major academic institution and a major animal welfare agency—the American Humane Association—made possible through donor and university support. And it's rare in that it is not in a veterinary school, a psychology department or a child-development program, but rather, in a graduate school of social work, where PhDs as well as clinicians are trained. During our interview, I was delighted, but not surprised, to learn that Dr. Ascione combines rigorous scientific inquiry with a passion for people and animals, which makes for the best sort of caring: the informed kind. He is a positive, energetic person with a lot of gratitude to go around. One of his first comments during our interview was, "I have high enthusiasm for this change in my career and great appreciation for those who made it possible." He is sincerely interested in learning about domestic violence, animal cruelty and the links between them so that he can use that information to develop effective prevention and intervention programs. Expect more great work from Professor Ascione and his collaborators in the near future.
Bark: Why did you decide to accept the offer to occupy the new endowed chair?
Frank Ascione: I didn't want to leave Utah at the time the position first opened, but I spent half a semester at DU and they effectively romanced me. It's a great place with so much respect for students and for scholarly activity. The university is vibrant and Denver is a fantastic city. The faculty, students and staff at DU were so affirming of my work.
B: What are your primary goals in your new position?
FA: I'm a child psychologist by training, but I am moving to a graduate school of social work. My interests are in animal abuse, child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse, and those all involve social work. I expect to have a great deal in common with my new colleagues. The potential is there for an amazing amount of collaboration, and my goal is to foster collaboration between those interested in animal welfare and groups working with and studying family violence, child abuse and elders.
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B: How do you label yourself professionally? Professor? Author? Social Worker?
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