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ISiTGR is an integrated set of modified modules for the software package CosmoMC for use in testing whether observational data is consistent with general relativity on cosmological scales. This latest version of the code has been updated to allow for the consideration of non-flat universes. It incorporates modifications to the codes: CAMB, CosmoMC, the ISW-galaxy cross correlation likelihood code of Ho et al, and two of our independently developed weak lensing likelihood codes: one for the CFHTLenS weak lensing tomography of Heymans et al; and one for the refined COSMOS 3D weak lensing tomography of Schrabback et al.
A detailed explanation of the modifications made to these codes allowing one to test general relativity are described in our papers: arXiv:1109.4583, arXiv:1205.2422, and arXiv:1501.03119.
Two versions of ISiTGR are available. The normal version of ISiTGR uses a functional form to evolve the parameters used to test general relativity and is available here. ISiTGR_BIN, on the other hand, gives you two options to evovle the parameters used to test general relativity. The first option is to bin the parameters in two redshift and two scale bins, alternatively one can use the hybrid evolution method, as seen in our paper, where scale dependence evolves monotonically, but redshift dependence is binned. That code can be downloaded here.
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The original (flat only) verison of ISiTGR as well as builds for other versions of CosmoMC are available here (this version is for CosmoMC 12/2013).
To run ISiTGR you must first download and install CosmoMC (December 2013 version). You can find download instructions, system requirements, and setup instructions for CosmoMC in the CosmoMC ReadMe. Then, simply copy the contents of the unzipped ISiTGR folder to the CosmoMC folder, edit the Makefile for your compilers, compile (extra compiling step here), and you are ready to go. Detailed explanations of the specific options available in each of the ISiTGR codes are availalble in the ISiTGR ReadMe.
We would ask that when using ISiTGR or a modified version of it, you cite: our papers (arXiv:1109.4583 and arXiv:1205.2422), this website; the original CAMB paper; the original CosmoMC paper; and the papers on original ISW-galaxy cross correlation likelihood by Ho et al and Hirata et al. When using the CFHTLenS weak lensing tomography likelihood, please cite our paper, Heymans et al, and follow the CFHTLenS publication guidlines given here. If the refined HST COSMOS 3D weak lensing tomography likelihood in our code is used, the papers by Schrabback et al., Scoville et al., and Ilbert et al should be cited. Additionally please cite the use of any other datasets already included in the original version of CosmoMC.
1.2 (Released 01/25/15, this version): Updates for Dec. 2013 version of CosmoMC, new CFHTLenS likelihood module.
1.1.1 (Released 05/29/13): Includes bug fixes (Special thanks to Ana Caramete and Lucia Popa).
1.1: Updated code to allow for non-flat universes when varying the MG parameters.
1.02.2 (Released 05/29/13): Includes bug fixes.
1.02: Updated to January 2012 version of CosmoMC.
1.01.2 (Released 05/29/13): Includes bug fixes.
1.01: Updated to October 2011 version of CosmoMC. BAO module now comes included in CosmoMC (Thanks to Antony Lewis).
1.0.1 (Released 05/29/13): Includes bug fixes.
1.0: Initial release, for August 2011 version of CosmoMC.
If you have any question or comments about ISiTGR or would like to be updated about with future changes to the code, please feel free to email Jason Dossett at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's the most wonderful time of the year! That is, if you're a kid or a teacher. Summer is right around the corner and parents are frantically looking for worthwhile things for their kids to dive into other than a swimming pool or the latest video game. The release of Hart Getzen's Echo's Revenge is the answer for the kid who's just not that interested in reading or for the gamer who would rather kill a few zombies than kill an hour or two reading a good book.
The Echo's Revenge series is presented under the name Sean Austin, a videogame programmer who is documenting the path of destruction wrought by this virtual shape-shifting monster. The Ultimate Game is the first novel in the series, told from the point of view of young Reggie (14) and Jeremy (11), two brothers who are master gamers in the world of ECHO, a heartless, indestructible, renegade virtual creation. Unfortunately, ECHO's not the only monster in their life – they also face the unpredictable behavior of their mother's explosive boyfriend. When life at home gets too rough, the boys decide to run away. Little do they know that the latest iteration of ECHO has escaped the game, and is targeting gamers as part of a nefarious real-life scheme. Parts II and III of the series will be published in 2013 and 2014, with plans to turn ECHO into an actual online combat-style role-playing game.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Selected as One of the Five Best in the World for "Car Sites & Car Culture"
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences was selected VanderbiltCupRaces.com as a Nominee for the 17th Annual Webby Awards in the Car Sites & Car Culture category.
Congratulations to UrbanDaddy, which won the Webby for the category.
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Congratulations, on behalf of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it is my pleasure to inform you that Vanderbilt Cup Races has been selected as a Nominee for the 17th Annual Webby Awards in the Car Sites & Car Culture category. This is an unparalleled honor.
As a Nominee, your work has been selected as one of the five best in the world in its category, and is competing for the Internet industry's two most sought-after awards: The Webby Award and the Webby People's Voice Award.
While the Academy selects their Webby Winner in each category, every Webby Nominee is up for a People's Voice Award as selected by the voting public. Voting for the People's Voice is open from April 9th to April 25th ¬ visit the The Webby Awards site .
All Webby Winners will be announced on April 30, 2013 and honored at the 17th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 21, 2013.
VanderbiltCupRaces.com is the only non-commericial, non-profit website among the five Nominees. The other websites nominated in the Car Sites & Car Culture category are:
Road & Track (Hearst Magazines)
Globe Drive (Glob and Mail)
Driven (UrbanDaddy)
The Camry Effect (Saatchi & Saatchi)
Congratulations to Dana Kyle for the original design of the website and Eric Miller of Eric Miller Design for the 2012 upgrades.
Don't forget to vote for VanderbiltCupRaces.com for the People's Voice Award .
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CNN "Hidden Gems of the Webby Award nominees"
(CNN) -- The annual Webby Awards are always a treasure trove of fascinating sites and apps. The organization behind the awards, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, announced the latest, lengthy list of nominees on Tuesday.
The awards started in 1996 and over the past 17 years have expanded to include categories such as mobile apps, ad campaigns and online videos. For the final Webbys list, the academy narrowed down 11,000 applications to find five nominees for each category, as well as some honorable mentions. Though the official winners will be chosen by academy members, anyone can vote for the People's Voice Awards.
USA Today "Who's nominated for this year's Webby Awards?
It's time again for the Webby Awards, the annual event that honors the best sites, features, series, design and more on the web.
This is the 17th year that trophies will be handed out, and the categories are too numerous to name. (See all the nominees here.) I do suggest you glance through them, though, because the Webbys are always a good barometer of what we should be watching and checking out online, from original series such as Burning Love and Neil's Puppet Dreams to such sites as Dollar Shave Club and the Beck 360 Experience.
Venturebeat.com "The Webby Awards Nominations"
Awards-season junkies, your wait for The Webby Awards nominations is over – I know, you can barely contain your excitement. Tuesday, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for its 17th Annual 2013 Webby Awards, which highlights the most interesting stuff found on the Internet in the last year.
For the last 16 years, the Webby Awards have honored the best of the web, including most-loved websites, viral YouTube videos, useful mobile apps, and inspired displays of advertising. Last year's winners include Instagram for Breakout of the Year, Louis C.K. as Person of the Year, and Nyan Cat for Meme of the Year.
In each category, members of the IADAS choose their winner and the general public votes for a winner of the People's Choice award. Anyone can cast their vote for this year's nominees starting Tuesday on the Webby's website.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Nominees for Webby's indicate its maturation"
The 17th annual Webby award nominees were announced Tuesday, and a look at the roster shows just how grown-up the Internet has become in those years: Many of the project creators are established entertainment industry royalty, such as Tom Hanks, "Electric City"; Charlize Theron, "Charlize Theron Gets Hacked"; and Jerry Seinfeld, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."
The Webbys recognize achievements in all aspects of Internet culture, including websites, interactive advertising and media, online film and video, mobile, apps and social.
This year there were more than 11,000 entries, which were winnowed down to five nominees in each category.
Winners will be chosen by the Webby Academy panel. The Webby awards show will broadcast online on May 22.
Hi Howard: Another mark on your resume of life and most deserving !!!!!
C O N G R A T S on the nomination and hope you win !!!!
I hope to see you at our ALPCA-LI meet this coming Saturday at the Elks Lodge
in Massapequa….. Best For Now and CHEERS To you !!!! Ron
Ron, thanks. Look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
Congratulations! And well deserved, for sure. I checked upon your competitors, but this site is certainly the best!!
Congratulations Howard! Your site is still one of my favorite projects and so great to see it getting public recognition. Good luck!
Same goes for me Howard. Be seeing you and the Black Beast on Sunday
Quite an achievement , you have my vote!
Hi Howard,
As a fellow car enthusiast and classic cars website owner, I am happy for you!
We certainly do have quite a large following here on Long Island. One of the hotbeds in the country for classic cars!
You have done a great job with the history you keep alive and educate us with.
Now if I can just get my website redone the way I want - maybe I'll get a "Webby" too one day!
Congrats again!
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In case you haven't noticed, the city of Tyler has added many new restaurants this year. Well, it's not over yet. Next to open in Tyler is the Corner Bakery Cafe. The restaurant is scheduled to open Monday, October 24th. More after the jump.
Corner Bakery Cafe started as a small bread bakery, supplying freshly baked bread to local customers around town. People loved this fresh bread so much, the bakery couldn't help but to slowly become a cafe where they could serve equally fresh sandwiches. This soon led to tasty sweets, panini's, fresh salads, and hearty bowls of soups and pasta.
Corner's, unlike other deli's around Tyler, not only serves lunch and dinner but breakfast as well. You can get you typical home style breakfast- eggs, bacon, pancakes, oatmeal, anything you can basically think of. And then after you eat breakfast there and you realize how much you love it, you can go back for lunch and have one of their amazing sandwiches and a bowl of hearty soup.
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When a reader left a comment wondering when we would be doing something sweet, Linda and I were ready with the sweetest Southern fall crop, sweet potatoes.
You grow sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) from rooted cuttings, called slips, planted into warm garden soil (May in South Carolina, where we live). Their growing requires 90 to 150 days to mature, depending on type.
These tropical vegetables love the heat and humidity of Southern summers, but must come out of the ground before any frost hits the garden. When the vines turn yellow, it is time to dig. If frost is forecast, dig them even if the plants are still green. Even a light frost will travel down the stem and damage the swollen roots we know as sweet potatoes.
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Cut the vines, then carefully dig the roots, which bruise quite easily, with a spading fork, gently lifting the soil from deep underneath the plants.
The next activity will be to get them to "sweeten." Sweet potatoes come out of the ground starchy. They need high heat and humidity to reach their full sweet potential. The longer you can store them at 85 degrees F. and 90 per cent humidity (up to two weeks), the sweeter they will become. If summer has turned to late fall before your harvest, try curing the sweet potatoes in the kitchen, usually the warmest and most humid room in the house.
Once the sweet potatoes are dried and cured, they can be stored at warm temperatures, anything above 50 degrees F. Six to eight weeks of storage will improve their sugar content and sweetness.
Colder storage will harden the core of the sweet potato and ruin the taste. Never, ever put raw sweet potatoes into the refrigerator. Cook them first. To keep them for any length of time, wash them, boil or bake them, then after draining, package them with their skins intact and freeze or refrigerate them.
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Unusual sweet potato cake
A lemon-flavored sweet potato pone that my (Linda's) father loved, inspired this very moist and sweet cake with a touch of lemon flavoring. The sweet potato pone was made by an elderly woman who knew and cooked by the old "foodways" (that is, cooking the old way, preserving the past) at a little cafe in southwest Alabama. Her name has slipped my mind over the years, but the thought of her luscious sweet potatoes has not.
This cake [see second photo above; click on the arrow at the right base of the first photo] has no cinnamon, no spices, but is very moist and delicious with a nice contrast in flavors from the lemon extract and the lemon-flavored yogurt.
I like my cake sweet, and this is, sweet and Southern, just as you would expect from a sweet potato cake.
Sweet Potato Cake With Lemon Glaze
3 sticks softened butter
3 cups sugar
2 cups packed mashed sweet potatoes (see note)
6 eggs (at room temperature)
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 (6-ounce) container lemon-flavored yogurt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Prepare a large tube pan by spraying with baking spray.
In a large mixing bowl of an electric mixer with paddle attachment, add the butter and sugar. Beat until creamy.
Add the eggs one at a time and mix well. Add the mashed sweet potatoes, and mix well on low speed. Add lemon extract. Mix the salt and baking soda into the flour. Alternate adding the flour mixture and the yogurt to the batter. Turn the mixer on medium high and beat for 1 minute.
Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan. Bake for approximately 65 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Place on a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes. Turn out onto a heat-proof serving plate. (I like to turn the cake back over to the top side). Let cool before slicing. Serves 8 to 10.
Note: I used 3 medium baked sweet potatoes to make 2 cups mashed. Make sure they are completely done -- the potatoes will be very soft and you can squeeze them.
Lemon Glaze
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice
Mix together and drizzle over the cake.
Editor's Note: To read more of Anne and Linda's "how to grow and prepare" series, click here.
Linda Weiss and Anne Moore met while Linda was the food editor and Anne was the garden editor for South Carolina Homes & Gardens magazine. They now write articles for the ETV GardenSMART television show website, where Anne is the horticulture editor, gardening consultant, and e-newsletter editor. Anne has written for magazines and newspapers. She is a member of and a recipient of a Silver Award for magazine writing from the Garden Writers Association. Linda is a personal chef. She attended Le Cordon Bleu of Paris' catering program, has appeared as a guest chef on numerous television shows, has been a culinary educator for 10 years, and a food writer for a number of magazines. She is a professional member of The James Beard Foundation and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She has written a cookbook, "Memories From Home, Cooking with Family and Friends."


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Russia's leading independent media head into Sunday's elections--in which Vladimir Putin is expected to be handed his third presidential term--burdened by a series of warnings. Over the past few months, beginning with the parliamentary elections held December 4, Kremlin allies have taken several steps designed to put news outlets on alert for uncensored coverage of nationwide protests, in which a surprising number of Russians have demanded an end to elections fraud and called on Putin to step down from his current post of prime minister.
On December 12, Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, owner of the Kommersant Publishing House -- which produces independent business daily Kommersant and several other news outlets -- announced that he was sacking Maksim Kovalsky, chief editor of the popular weekly magazine Kommersant-Vlast. Demyan Kudryavtsev, the publisher's executive director, announced he would resign. The news was a huge blow, as Kovalsky and Kudryavtsev are leading journalists and considered fathers of Kommersant and its publisher.
The magazine's coverage of the parliamentary election was surely the reason for Kommersant's beheading. A week after the vote, most of Kommersant-Vlast's coverage was of the alleged fraud that led to public outrage and protests unprecedented in Russia in the past decade. But Usmanov -- believed to be in Putin's close circle - zeroed in on a formal reason to punish the magazine. In its December 12 issue, Kommersant-Vlast published a picture of a ballot cast in London for the opposition Yabloko party; the ballot carried a hand-written insult to Putin across it. Usmanov publicly scolded the magazine for "unacceptable use of coarse language," and said it was unethical and "on the borderline of hooliganism." The magazine removed the picture from its website, but it was circulated on social networks, including Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin's Twitter account.
The removal of Kovalsky and Kudryavtsev angered their colleagues at Kommersant. Two days later, dozens of journalists from Usmanov's news outlets -- including independent news website Gazeta -- signed and published online an open letter headlined, "We are forced into cowardice." Veronika Kucyllo, a long-serving deputy editor at Kommersant-Vlast, announced her resignation in protest of Usmanov's decision.
Other prominent media outlets have been subject to official intimidation and scrutiny following their reporting on anti-Putin rallies.
On February 14, the state controlled publishing company Gazprom-media, which holds a 66% stake in the independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, demanded a premature shuffling of the broadcaster's board of directors and removal of two of its prominent members. The long serving independent directors Yevgeny Yasin and Aleksandr Makovsky, who had been helping the broadcaster develop for 11 years, were forced out. Aleksei Venediktov, the broadcaster's chief editor, and his deputy Vladimir Varfolomeyev were axed from the board too, Ekho Moskvy reported. Both editors are known for fierce criticism of Putin's government.
In an interview with Gazeta, Yasin suggested the move could only have been orchestrated by the high echelons of power because Gazprom has had a hands-off attitude to the station in the past. "The government apparently wants to establish control over independent media," Yasin told Gazeta, "and Ekho Moskvy is, in a sense, a flagman. If it changes course, all others would either be falling in line or resist."
The board shuffle followed a public scolding of the broadcaster's editorial line by Vladimir Putin. At a January 18 meeting with chief editors of the leading Russian news outlets, Putin accused Ekho Moskvy of serving U.S. interests, and said the station was smearing him nonstop from dusk to dawn.
The next attack against the media took place on February 16, when Russia's Prosecutor General's Office launched an investigation against independent Web-based broadcaster Dozhd. The probe came at the request of Robert Shlegel, a parliament member from Putin's United Russia party, local press reported. Shlegel accused the broadcaster of providing support to, and being a mouthpiece of, the December protest rallies. According to news reports, Shlegel said he suspected that Dozhd had accepted foreign sponsorship to play its role. Putin has long accused critics and opponents of being sponsored by foreigners; following the December protests, he publicly accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of siding with the protesters and supporting them. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika also told reporters that the protests had foreign sponsors.
Prosecutors have seized accounting documents from Dozhd and the investigation continues. Commenting on the accusations, Mikhail Zygar, Dozhd's chief editor, said Russia's fiscal police are well aware of the broadcaster's funding, and that covering the protests -- which took place a few blocks from his newsroom -- was not costly. Zygar said the broadcaster used one of its weather cameras on top of the newsroom's building, and bought footage from the state-controlled news agency RIA Novosti.
Yet another Putin critic, prominent independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has been obstructed ahead of Sunday's vote. Last month, local media reported that authorities, including agents from the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service (FSB), and more than 100 auditors from Russia's central bank raided the businesses of the newspaper's major shareholder, Aleksandr Lebedev. Lebedev's primary business, Natsionalnyi Rezervnyi Bank, and its 19 branches nationwide were the subject of a "planned" audit, Aleksey Simanovsky of the central bank told journalists on February 18. However, this announcement came after authorities audited Lebedev's bank last fall and published a 500-page review concluding the bank did not breach the law.
The auditors are apparently interested not in the bank but in the profits Lebedev uses for philanthropy - the raiders confiscated paperwork related to the funding of his humanitarian and media organizations. The latter includes Novaya Gazeta, which is known for relentless criticism of Putin's government. At the moment all of Lebedev's personal accounts are frozen, and those funded by the businessman, including Novaya Gazeta's staffers, are affected.
Igor Yakovenko, former head of the Russian Union of Journalists, said all of these moves to intimidate the media -- firing Kommersant editors, investigating Dozhd, dismissing Ekho Moskvy's independent directors, and auditing Lebedev's bank - is a harbinger of grave changes in the relationship between the power holders and society.
"This is a collection of signals which send an unequivocal message of what is going to happen to Russian media after the March 4 presidential elections. Everything that's happening to Ekho Moskvy, Dozhd, Lebedev's business interests - all this is summing up into a clear pattern: That the game is over," Yakovenko told CPJ.>


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Model-Based Design has potential to improve product quality, robustness, and engineering efficiency. Cummins has utilized Model-Based Design for engine control development since the 1990s and automatic code generation for the majority of controller application code since 2002. However, a few challenges are still ahead. Legacy methods and tools, organizational boundaries, and integration with product development life cycle all need to be addressed to extract further value from adoption of Model-Based Design. Initiatives in embedded software organizations such as reuse also need to be aligned with the Model-Based Design framework. Also, the measures that drive behavior and indicators of success will need to adapt to support a Model-Based Design culture.
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ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" sometimes breaks news, but never anything like this: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed Sunday that he's set to appear in the next Sylvester Stallone popcorn flick.
Word of Rambo and the Terminator, together at last, would have been an action movie fan's dream come true – about 25 years ago.
The Governator told Stephanopoulos that he couldn't turn down Stallone, whom he praised as "a terrific director, writer, and great actor." (Click here to see the video.)
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The 61-year-old Schwarzenegger will make a cameo in next year's "The Expendables," an action thriller about a band of mercenaries set on overthrowing a South American dictator. Stallone, 62, also will be joined by Dolph ("Rocky IV") Lundgren, and suddenly hot Mickey Rourke, who may be kicking himself now for signing on.
There have been movies where aging tough guys are dragged back into their element – John Wayne in "True Grit," and Clint Eastwood in his unforgettable mythology-busting "Unforgiven" -- and bring some perspective, introspection and even humor to the screen.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger, at least in the movies, were never much for introspection, though you can't say they lack a sense of humor – especially now.
The pairing, especially given Schwarzenegger's apparent short screen time, sounds like an exercise in Hollywood hype that's liable to end up a disappointment – or, at best, in a cheap laugh. Too bad they couldn't have pulled something like this together during their respective 1980s heydays as action heroes.
The cameo, though, could be a hint that Schwarzenegger is planning a more permanent return to the big screen – he wouldn't tell Stephanopoulos whether he has any political plans beyond the end of his term next year.
Meanwhile, he's battling to restore his approval ratings after using spending cuts and tax hikes last week to plug a $40 billion budget gap. That's popularity fight that not even a team of the Terminator, Rocky and Rambo could win.
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"Somehow we have developed this large contingent of know-it-all baseball fans who bay like wounded coyotes at any mention of wins, losses, RBI or batting average. I never know whether I should blame myself for this or not.." (Bill James)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Nate McLouth
It covers the Pirates selling high and Nate the Great, now 29, hitting the free market after the season. Was 2010 just the year from hell or did the NL pitchers put together a book or McLouth? We'll find out soon.
2 comments:
- WilliamJPellas said...
I'm a big McLouth believer. To me, there's no mystery whatsoever: the guy has had a chronic hamstring injury since spring training of 2009. Even with that, he still managed his second consecutive 20-20 season (yes, readers, I know it was 19 steals the second year, but you get my point). Players with that kind of all-around power and speed combo who also have McLouth's defensive ability don't grow on trees, even if Nate will never hit much more than .250 or .260. In terms of his age, he should still be in his prime. It's simply a matter of health. If he can stay off the trainer's table, I have zero doubt that he can return to his previous form or something close to it. Unfortunately the kind of injury he has rarely ever heals completely. Chronic leg problems chopped down Ken Griffey Jr. and they took out a number of prominent players before him.
- January 25, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Ron Ieraci said...
That's a big if, Wil. We'll see this year if he can stay in one piece.
- January 27, 2011 at 6:08 PM


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At this year's New York Comic Con, word came that Keith Giffen would be helming a new Doom Patrol series, with art by Matthew Clark. While that was good enough news for Doom Patrol fans, what made it even more interesting is that the new series will have a co-feature, that is, each issue will have a second story in it, in this instance, Metal Men, which Giffen will co-write with his former Justice League partner J.M. DeMatteis, with art by Kevin Maguire.
The news of a book with "co-features" piqued the curiosity of more than a few DC fans who wondered if there would be more coming. The answer, as DC Universe Executive Editor Dan DiDio exclusively revealed to Newsarama is: yes.
In June, both Teen Titans and Booster Gold (prior to the launch of Doom Patrol, which debuts later in the summer) will gain their own co-features: Ravager and Blue Beetle, respectively. The co-features will be presented in pages added in addition to the regular series' stories.
"We have a number of characters and series ideas that we firmly believe in and that a lot of creators are passionate about, but unfortunately, when it comes to the actual production of an actual series or a miniseries, they always run into some challenge when it comes to sales," DiDio explained when asked about the co-feature initiative. "That's not to say that the projects aren't good or that the characters aren't viable, but for whatever reason it is, they always have less sales potential than our other books. But I believe these characters need a place to be seen and for their stories to be told."
According to DiDio, the Blue Beetle and Ravage stories will pick up on threads from the recently canceled Blue Beetle series, as well as Ravager's storyline in Terror Titans, and will continue to move the characters in their own directions.
"We've listened to things that people are saying, and there are a lot of well-loved characters out there that for whatever reason can't support a series at this time," DiDio said. "This approach, we feel, gives them a chance to shine and attract new readers and fans as well, and more importantly, add value to our books as well."
The move is, as DiDio pointed out, a return of sorts for DC, as he pointed back to his own days of a fan when Firestorm appeared as a second feature in the ongoing Flash series. Those stories, DiDio said, are still fondly remembered by fans today, and also still have ramifications decades down the road.
"Something like this – like more than one feature in a book, is what makes comics comics, to me," DiDio said. "My hope is that, with the pages we have allocated for the stories, that we're able to really capture a level of excitement and get people hooked on these characters. And there's a good chance that, if these things catch on with readers, they can spin out and be in their own series again – and that speaks to the quality of the co-features: with every second feature, whether it's a character or a team or a story – it's something that we feel would have been worthy for a miniseries or an ongoing series. These aren't any lesser stories or characters."
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I think that in order to answer "What's a good first programming language" or "Is X a good first programming language," we need to know more about the background and goals of the person who will be learning to program.
This can be difficult to do when designing an entry-level programming class for a group of students with different backgrounds and goals, but it is not always impossible (for example, an entry level CS class is likely to use a different first programming language than a web development programming class). And, it's very important to take these things into consideration if you're trying to go it alone and teach yourself how to program- one of the most common reasons I see this fail is attrition due to lack of interest.
Different people come to programming from different backgrounds. Leveraging someone's previous experience can make it easier for them to learn how to program by either building on knowledge they already have, or by improving their attention span by keeping the experience interesting. For some people, working with a graphical system can keep things interesting. For others, working with something that "looks almost just like a unix shell" is better. And those coming from an html web-development environment would be most comfortable working with something that looks "almost just like HTML."
At the same time, what the person intends to do with their programming skills is also important. If you're teaching future Computer Scientists, it's probably more useful and important to start with formal (but less frequently used in Real Life) languages with stricter syntax, such as Lisp and Pascal. If you're teaching a system administrator how to make their life easier, through automation of common tasks, but they never really intend to move on to large-scale development projects, then you'll never get anything accomplished with LISP (okay, except maybe in Emacs). Likewise, a web developer- if all they really want to do is spice up some otherwise boring web pages, knowing that you always have to predeclare variables and functions in Pascal isn't really going to help much.
It's probably heresy in CS circles to suggest that It's Okay to leave gaps in peoples' programming knowledge, that It's Okay to cut corners in order to facilitate Getting The Job Done. Teaching a web designer PHP as their first programming language will probably leave many lessons which would later need to be unlearned if the person eventually decided to go into Computer Science. But not everyone wants or needs to be a computer scientist just to write useful programs (or, to write programs Well, within a certain domain).
With all of that in mind... "Is Perl a good first programming language?" I'd say Yes, sometimes, for some people.
One poster commented that it's too easy to shoot your foot off in Perl if you're unexperienced. I claim, it's easy to shoot your foot off in Almost All languages. Perl has the benefit that it's less likely to crash your machine and require a hard reboot to recover, when you do shoot your foot off. And because there's no explicit compilation stage, it takes less time to sew your foot back on and try again.
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Obama's plan to tap oil to fund clean energy
President Barack Obama's proposal to fund clean-energy research with fees paid by oil and gas producers is renewing a debate over whether the promise of innovation tomorrow is worth expanding drilling today.
Obama's "Energy Security Trust" -- which he announced this week in the State of the Union address -- would redirect about $US200 million in royalties for drilling on federal lands to pay for the development of biofuels, electric batteries and cars and trucks powered by natural gas, the White House said yesterday. The trust would operate for 10 years and spend a total of $US2 billion.
While Obama's plan doesn't open new areas to producers, clean-energy advocates say the idea of an oil-backed fund could ensure further support for fossil fuel alternatives even in an era of austerity and federal budget cuts.
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Similar proposals have floated in Congress for years. In 2009, Republicans led by now House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio introduced an energy bill that would have directed money from oil and gas lease sales to pay for clean-energy programs as a counter to a climate-change legislation Democrats were pushing.
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The proposal is similar to an idea offered by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, the top Republican on the Energy Committee, with one key difference: hers requires the revenue come from projects on lands where drilling is now off-limits, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Nevertheless she said the president's proposal is a potential area for compromise in Congress, which hasn't passed a major energy bill since 2007.
The "contours" of Obama's proposal sound similar to her own, Murkowski said in an interview. "I think we're all talking about the same thing."
Energy development and mineral mining on U.S. lands and offshore raised about $US12 billion for state and federal governments in fiscal year 2012, according to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, a division of the Interior Department. That was about $US1 billion more than the previous year as advances such as hydraulic fracturing are giving oil and gas producers more access to reserves trapped in shale-rock formations.
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"If a non-partisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals can get behind this idea, then so can we," Obama said in his address. "Let's take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices we've put up with for far too long."
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Obama said his administration would work to accelerate permits to oil and gas producers to increase production, which would raise more revenue for the government in the royalties, lease sales and bonus bids.
One obstacle will be whether taking money from oil and gas revenue to pay for clean energy projects will leave budget holes elsewhere, said Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Murkowski. "We don't go for deficit spending," he said.
In his first term, Obama promoted clean energy as a source of millions of new jobs. The 2009 economic stimulus provided about $US90 billion for clean energy loans, grants and tax breaks to improve the electric grid, develop wind and solar power, and promote energy efficiency.
About $US16 billion of the money went to an Energy Department loan-guarantee program under which Solyndra LLC won a $US535 million award in 2009. The Fremont, California-based solar panel maker went bankrupt two years later, prompting complaints from Republicans that Obama was trying to pick winners and losers among energy companies.
Energy security
The approach Obama endorsed this week is a more modest plan that focuses on research and emphasises energy security more than green jobs.
Clean-energy advocates who fear tight budgets could dry up support for wind, solar and other programs said oil and gas revenue may offer a solution.
"Conceptually, there should be broad support for it," said Joshua Freed, vice president for the Clean Energy Program at The Third Way, a Washington-based group that says it promotes public policies that can attract bipartisan support. "The desire for America to be less dependent on oil and less susceptible to wild swings of global oil prices is a non- partisan issue."
The plan would face resistance from environmental groups if they perceive it to be a promotion of oil and gas development.
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Can I survive a free fall by carrying a very light and resistant ramp using a rope?
Note: lets assume the ramp is a little bit heavier at the bottom and I am very skilled at making it always land correctly, also I am wearing a ultra-oiled suit.
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Can I survive a free fall by carrying a very light and resistant ramp using a rope?
Note: lets assume the ramp is a little bit heavier at the bottom and I am very skilled at making it always land correctly, also I am wearing a ultra-oiled suit.
You will die.
Terminal velocity is a bit more than 50 m/s. The bottom of your ramp appears to have a radius less than 2m. That means you'll be exposed to more than 125g as you zip around the bottom. Nice knowing you.
In the global, cartoon, sense, yes, this problem is equivalent to having a whole row of carefully designed, placed and arranged ramps so that you fall onto the first one, get "flung" out such that you then land on the next one and so on, until dissipation wastes away the energy. Obviously this can be done since it is the same principle as is used in say motorcycle jumps. The key feature is that you never experience accelerations large enough to kill you (it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end).
It is all the details will cause problems.
To put this in perspective: Apart from the speed lost due friction in the ramp (which, for the scale of it, won't make much of a difference) , when you exit the ramp you need to decelerate by applying the force to the ramp through the rope.
That is almost the same force that your body would suffer when crashing into the ground, only that concentrated in the parts of your body that hold the rope. If you hold the rope with your hands it will slip, if it is attached to your arm it will be probably torn off. Even with a more suited harness, your internal organs still will suffer the high deceleration that usually is the cause of death (remember, it is not the fall that kills, it is when you stop falling).
It is like throwing yourself from an airplane at 10,000 meters tied to a rope 9,995 meters long; when the rope stops descending you are in a big trouble.
As with bungee jumping, an elastic rope could offer a more suitable solution (as it allows applying the deceleration for a longer span of time, thereby needing less time), but at the speed you would be going then probably the rope will be either too inelastic, or too long for safely stop you before you hit the ground.
This death roller coaster kills it's passengers by subjecting them to continuous 10g centrifugal acceleration, starving the brain for oxygen. The force is held constant regardless of friction, by reducing the radius of the circles.
I am posting this to illustrate that constant low-g acceleration can still kill you.
Due to terminal velocities (maybe we should concern about this velocity), a free-fall would end up atleast barely some $50 m/s$.
By light, I assume that you mean that the ramp is somewhat comparable (though it is massive) to your own weight. Then, it wouldn't definitely survive the crash. Such an impact wouldn't be survived by any known light materials (I think so). Would it be elastic, then you'd fall right away through it.
That oily friction part is somewhat encouraging. But, you couldn't carry such a massive body after you slide off. We've got two cases...
1) Assuming that your hand is robotic, you'll just rip your hand off which looks imaginary..!
2) The other one is worse. You'd leave away the rope (due to the same friction which discourages here)
Any way - You'll die: (But what about a new plan) You'd need a longer rope than you actually have now. Then, You could build an airbag-like ramp or something which automatically fills itself as it crashes the ground and then you could slide or roll or whatever...
There is only one (safe) way to test this model; why not program a simulation of it and see what happens?
We can neglect air resistance and all that, but you need to at least come up with some dimensions or else we can never know if the whole idea is madness or not.
I would put pen to paper and think of something you can work with, (e.g. the slope and dimensions of the ramp, the initial conditions etc) run it on the computer and see if your stick man lives.


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He's got two months to get the hang of it.
Craig was one of the players swept away in the dizzying baseball business perpetrated Thursday. Craig went from a team that harbors World Series hopes to a team dead last in the AL East.
New team, new world for Craig.
"It's been crazy," he said. But it's the business he's chosen, and he's grateful for it. "I was lucky to be with the Cardinals as long as I was (three years), and it's going to be fun here. Great guys here, like David Ortiz.
"I'm looking forward to getting out there and playing ball."
He was in the lineup, left field, batting fifth.
Craig knows Fenway Park from last year's World Series, so he understands "it's going to take some time to learn to take balls off the wall." He'll hate it at first.
Thursday the Red Sox came up with more moves than Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" video.
Friday it continued, but it was mostly small stuff. Mike Carp was designated for assignment. Shane Victorino went back on the DL. With Craig the new left fielder, does Daniel Nava's playing time shrink?
"We'll look to take advantage of Nava's abilities," said manager John Farrell, who is trying to figure all this out on the fly.
Does Brock Holt get squeezed now? He was in right field, keeping it warm for Yoenis Cespedes who will play there Saturday. Holt has been one of the few shining lights, and Farrell appreciates that. He still had Holt earmarked for "center field, third base and shortstop."
One thing Farrell is sure of is that Cespedes will be in the lineup every day, and play right field now that Victorino's out again. The Victorino thing might get a little dicey.
Cespedes was en route to Boston. When he arrived he wasn't in the starting lineup, but submitted, through an interpreter, to a 5:30 gathering with the media. He admitted to being "caught by surprise by the trade" that sent Jon Lester to the A's. "But I'm very happy to be here with such a legendary team. It's no secret to anyone this is a great team."
Just not right now, and that's why Cespedes is here: to add punch to a punchless team. Cespedes said he was happy to have Ortiz as a teammate. "We'll be able to do a lot of great things."
He's played here before, so he knows about the Green Monster and the temptation it dangles for a right-handed power hitter. Wisely, Cespedes said, "I can't predict the number of home runs I'll hit."
It better be quite a few.
"Improving our offense was a goal," said Farrell. That's why Cespedes and Craig are here.
Mookie Betts was back up, and played center. Will Middlebrooks was at third and Xander Bogaerts at short. The Stephen Drew trade had finally cleared the deck for Bogaerts. Making his way to the Yankees' clubhouse, Drew shook hands with a few Red Sox beat writers. He was in the lineup, playing second base, and got an ovation — somewhere between warm and lukewarm — from the packed house.
It was a night when name tags should have been handed out. Pitchers Alex Wilson and Tommy Layne were up from Pawtucket. Joe Kelly, the pitcher the Red Sox got from the Cardinals, will step into the rotation, which now has Clay Buchholz as its veteran presence.
"I don't feel old by any means" said Buchholz, who turns 30 Aug. 14. "But time passes (quickly)."
Buchholz is willing to take the young pitchers by the hand. "I was able to learn from the (veteran) guys when I came up." Time to return the favor.
Farrell is fine with Buchholz taking a leadership role, but pointed out "the greatest way is by going out and doing the job (himself)."
Lester's departure remains the biggest void in the clubhouse. "That's what happens when everyone wants you, like Lester," said Buchholz.
One of the young Boston pitchers is Anthony Ranaudo, who was making his Major League debut. It was a heckuva backdrop for the kid. Friday night, pitching against the Yankees! Derek Jeter! Jacoby Ellsbury! Oh yeah, and Ranaudo went up against Chris Capuano, who the Red Sox just dumped. The storylines were abundant.
Naturally Farrell is anxious to see how the young pitchers do.
"They all have good stuff," said the manager. "We're still in the process of sorting things out."
Farrell insisted the lost season doesn't mean the last two months are all about getting a certain number of at-bats or inning pitched for his players. "Winning is still the priority."
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