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We use hybrid algorithm which combines both distributed and lumped analyses to model and simulate the chevron thermal actuator in electro-thermo-mechanical domain. Electric current passing through the actuator causes Joule heating, which causes thermal expansion. Since the Joule heating is distributed along the length of the actuator, we model the electro-thermal domain using a distributed method. The distributed method that we use is the explicit finite difference method (FDM) due to its easy implementation. Since the thermal expansion amounts to a small and approximately linear deflection, we use the average temperature along the length of the actuator to determine the resulting axial forces in our lumped analysis. For lumped analysis we chose to use, SUGAR MEMS model and simulation tool, which is based on modified nodal analysis (MNA) due to its immediate availability to us. Material, geometric and thermal properties can be defined by users. Static analysis and parameter(s) (up to 2) sweep analysis are available based on users' choice. The original and actuated model images, the table-formatted deflection data together with the SUGAR2.0 netlist (Netlist is a text file which defines the features of the model in SUGAR2.0.) are provided as output.
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Speaking of, I've been working on a project that is ground up and is got quite a ways to go before it could really being a game.
Quote from: Draco18s on November 01, 2015, 12:41:04 PMSpeaking of, I've been working on a project that is ground up and is got quite a ways to go before it could really being a game.Sounds intriguing!
Quote from: x4000 on November 01, 2015, 04:00:44 PMQuote from: Draco18s on November 01, 2015, 12:41:04 PMSpeaking of, I've been working on a project that is ground up and is got quite a ways to go before it could really being a game.Sounds intriguing!Mind, I'm having to pick up a huge amount of knowledge. I think I spent three days just on stencil masks. And it wasn't even that important, I was just super annoyed that edge highlighting is typically a post-processing effect and didn't want to and that the standard methods (scaling the model up) were imprecise. None the less I found a solution. A 165 line, two-pass, stenciled geometry fragment shader (posted over here, as it was the top google result for that particular question). There's an example in the comment reply stack.All I've got at the moment is about a fifth of a half-decent map generator. It's missing a ton of small detail work and actual scenario elements, and its not hugely varied (how many rectangular rooms connected by fixed-width hallways can you really traverse before growing bored). Soooo...I've kind of got some impetus to scrap it and start over. On the upside, its better than my prior attempt, which ended up feeling cramped and overly large at the same time (no room to maneuver with really long travel times).I'm also not as thrilled with my combat model (damage and weapons, actually) due to a conceptual mismatch between planned effects and mechanical and fluff description. E.g. 6 stats which can all be independently damaged with a variety of effects from turning the smartest robot guards into mindless imbeciles incapable of tracking you (as they keep forgetting you're a threat) to restricting vision range, movement speed, or damage output. Buuuut....I don't have good names for the damage types that make sense to effect enemies in these ways that also make for good mechanics that allow for a diversity of weapon types.The goal was to make "raw damage" not a truly viable choice ("sure, you can, and it'll work, but it's not that interesting") and instead give alternatives that let the stealth aspect work. Bean the guard over the head and he forgets about you as you melt back into the shadows (hooray, concussion!). Blind the watcher, sure he might raise an alarm, but he doesn't know where you are so it doesn't do a whole lot of good. That kind of thing instead of just "kill everyone." Plus, I'm very much a fan of stealth games where getting spotted and having to get into combat isn't an instant-loss scenario. Deus Ex: Human Revolution felt like this most of the time. Styx Master of Shadows has its moments, but I feel that the combat is too brutal to warrant doing often (you can take one guy and get away with no damage about a third of the time, another third you just die; if you get two guys on you you're just dead, you can't parry both of their attacks and parries are the only option unless you get the slip on a guy: you parry and get an opportunity to counter-attack, hug it up and you get stabbed for a good 40% of your hit points). Which means that you're either killing everyone (if you have the opportunity to sneak up and insta-dead a guy, you take it, because that means he can sneak up on you while you're trying to get around the next guard). I'm still kind of annoyed that the only way I got past one room of guards I had to use my 6 second-invisibility skill and run like hell and climb a wall where they couldn't follow. I tried so hard to sneak in and kill them one by one and it never worked....that ended up being a longer post that went into more detail than I'd originally intended. TL;DR I'm disappointed in parts of my original design or implementation and have a lot of things I need to still figure out and/or learn, but I've had a blast doing it.
wait its a stealth game your making? now I'm really rather interested.
That does sound really cool! This is a FPS, then?
Quote from: crazyroosterman on November 02, 2015, 11:03:11 AMwait its a stealth game your making? now I'm really rather interested.Quote from: x4000 on November 02, 2015, 11:41:21 AMThat does sound really cool! This is a FPS, then?Yes to both questions.
its an fps as well? sounds neat not that Ill really look into it when its out since my laptop doesn't surely take kindly fps games.
I don't mean to pry, but out of curiosity how well did the last expansion do?I don't remember hearing all that much about it so I got the impression it went like the Skyward Collapse expansion, but I guess maybe not.
I don't have offhand numbers on the TLF expansion, but it was in the ballpark of AI War expansions in terms of the effect it had on its own sales plus main game sales. TLF overall still accounts for something like 40% of our monthly income, with AI War down to maybe 50%. Ish.


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Mariah Yeater, 20, claims Bieber fathered her baby during an encounter at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on October 5, 2010, according to the documents. She wants Bieber to take a paternity test and provide child support.
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Gyms (ジム Gym) are located throughout various regions in the Pokémon Universe, run by its top member, a Gym Leader. Pokémon Gyms serve a couple of different purposes, one is to help in the training of a Trainers Pokémon. These members strengthen their Pokémon inside the Gym with the help of the Gym Leader, and will challenge anyone looking to battle the Gym Leader.
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- The only Pokémon type not to have a Gym specialize in are Dark-types. However, in Generation VII there is a Kahuna specializing in the Dark Type: Nanu
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- The existence of alternative gyms can also proved by the fact that characters say that there is a gym in a town, not the next gym, even when there is one badge left to earn, where he would say that the next gym was there if there were not, and by the fact that Roxie, the gym leader of Virbank City, acted as the final Unova gym leader for Ash as opposed to Drayden.
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Last August, I built a solar food dryer according to the plans in Eban Fodor's book, The Solar Food Dryer. It's the blue one in the picture and I'll refer to that as the SunWorks (SW) design. I wanted to know if I could actually dehydrate food with the sun in humid Virginia. The answer is Yes! In October, I built a second solar dryer according to plans developed by Appalachian State University (ASU). Those plans were in two articles that I found online from Home Power magazine, issues #57 (Feb/March 1997) and #69 (Feb/March 1999). I'm studying how to lessen my dependence on fossil fuel as far as food is concerned, so solar drying is high on my list to explore. I have an Excaliber food dehydrator that I bought used in 1992. In those days, I was deep into canning our extra produce and learning a new method of food preservation did not fit into my schedule. Besides, when in use the Excaliber pumped hot, humid air into the house and it made noise. Of course, canning produced hot, humid air, so at the time, it was the noise that bothered me the most. I might have used it for tomatoes more, but even with nine trays, it only held about 10 lbs. of tomatoes and it took 24 hours for them to dry completely. I was processing lots of tomatoes in my kitchen for our family of 6 and would run 2-4 times that amount through the canner in an afternoon and be done. I used it periodically for making beef jerky.
Times have changed. Now it is usually only two of us at the dinner table and I'm open to some new ideas. I still don't like noise and I also want to eliminate the hot, humid air of both canning and from the electric dehydrator (not to mention all that fossil fuel). Last summer, I found that the tomatoes in the solar food dryer would be almost dry by the end of the first day. I could leave them in the dryer overnight and they would be finished the second day. That was okay because I didn't have to listen to a motor or have any disruptions in the house. The only concern was if it would rain the next day. The SW design has an electric option that I built. One day I had tomatoes in it and was gone for the afternoon. That day a storm came up with a brief rain. My tomatoes were fine inside, but I plugged it in that evening to complete the drying, since the next day would be cloudy. I found that I used it so much more because it was just there and the sun was shining. I would look around the garden each day to see what I could put into it. I never did that with the Excaliber.
The SW design has only 60% of the drying area as my Excaliber. Since I'm interested in processing a large quantity of food, I built the larger ASU design which has 1.4 times the drying space of the nine tray Excaliber and about 2.25 times the drying capacity of the SW design. Last fall, I was acutely aware of how fast the sun was sinking each day because I had to keep moving the solar dryer so as not to be shaded by the trees on our property whose shadows kept getting longer. When I finished the second dryer by October 21, I was able to dry two batches of apples before I called it quits for the year. The larger dryer stayed out in the weather all winter and the SW dryer spent the winter in the barn. Now that it is time to use it, it is outside all the time with an old grill cover thrown over it during down times.
When I built the first dryer, deciding on how to build the screens was a big thing. I sized the dryer to the storm window I had. To have one screen on each level required screens that I thought would be unwieldy getting in and out of the house, so my design called for four screens, two on each level. I ordered food safe screening material from the author's website at http://www.solarfooddryer.com/ and I'm pleased with it. I made one screen frame with some old wood, cut to 1/2″ by 3/4″ and was unhappy with the results. Then I found out how easy it was to make the aluminum frames and made the rest with that. Once I used them my feelings changed. The aluminum frames were HOT to the touch when in use and the wood frame wasn't. Also, I may be doing something wrong, but I have to keep resetting the plastic spline in places or the screening will pop out of the aluminum frames.
When I made the larger dryer I made nice wooden frames with knot-free wood cut to 3/4″ by 3/4″. The corners are glued lap joints with one screw. These screens are wonderful and actually cheaper than the aluminum ones, but they require more skill to make. They don't get hot and I can stack them with the food on when carrying them in and out of the house. Having a tablesaw and a terrific husband as my helper is my secret to success.
I added 8″ to the length of the legs on the SW dryer and put old lawn mower wheels on one end. To make it level on the other end, I added aluminum corner strips, which hold the legs 2″ off the ground, protecting them from rot. In spite of having some materials already, such as the window, wheels, sheet metal, screening for vents, and aluminum tape, I spent $162 (before tax) on the SW dryer. If I would have made wood framed screens instead of the aluminum ones, I would have saved $18. Hardware adds up quickly and I spent $7 on the two side carrying handles, which I felt were important to the use of the dryer. Hinges also add to the cost, so if you can scrounge the hardware, you will be well ahead. Including the electric option cost me $23, with the porcelain sockets costing $5.49 each. By the way, the ONLY place I could find those fixtures was at an ACE Harware store. I tried other places and other sockets, and those were the only ones that would do. My goal was getting it built and seeing if it worked, not building it with the least money. I'll be helping a few friends build their dryers in a couple weeks and my experience will help them save some money and time. They've already visited the Habitat Restore and found a good deal on some hardware. This dryer is lightweight and easy to move around.
The ASU dryer cost me $385 (before tax) to build and I bought everything except the wheels, washers, and caulk. I wanted to do a good job on it, since it would be out in the weather and I wanted it to last a long time. I had to buy twice as much glazing as I needed and cut it lengthwise. The price includes only what I used for this project. I'm sure I'll have use for the rest sometime. This is a large object, so be sure you have a sunny spot that is large enough before building it.
The price per square foot of drying area comes out pretty close to the same for these two dryers, which is about $3 more per square foot over the price of a new nine tray Excaliber that I found online. I noticed that the new Excaliber is listed at 600 watts and my old ED-301 model is 1050 watts. The ad also says that it has 15 sq. ft. of drying area. The 15″x15″ trays in my Excaliber actually only have 14″x14″ of screened drying area, with a 1/2″ plastic frame all around, for a total of 12.25 sq. ft. for the nine trays. My calculations compare the actual screened area on all three dryers.
So, I'm ready to go this summer and I want some company. The more of us who are out there doing this and talking about it, the more we can share what we know and build the momentum of learning. I don't have lots of experience using the solar dryers yet, but I've used them enough to know that they work. Last summer, I dried tomatoes, peppers, peaches, apples, summer squash, snap beans, onions, greens, and made raisins from my grapes. Last week, I dried collards twice. They were easy and were done the same afternoon. There was lots of sun during the week, however the clouds moved in this weekend, after I had put some summer squash in. It served as a reminder that we need to be flexible when we are working with things like this. I'll use the dryers when I can, but if we have a week of rain and produce is coming out of the garden faster than we can use it, I'll get out the canner. The biggest adjustment to using the dryers is to get the trays filled as early as possible in the morning, to take advantage of the sun. I encourage you to read Fodor's book, even if you are going with your own design. It's full of much valuable background information. You might not have a good place to use a solar dryer yet, or the skills, time or inclination to build one, but you could obtain an electric one to get started learning about dehydrating food. The important thing is to get started. By the way, people have told me they put their electic dehydrators in a spare room so they didn't have to listen to them. On September 17, I'll be giving a presentation on Low Energy Food Preservation at the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello. Come and hear about my summer with the solar dryers. Sandor Katz of Wild Fermentation fame will also be there.
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In a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller said the agency made "a risk-based decision" not to reprogram its computer systems to account for the expiration of legislation that limits the reach of the AMT to about 4 million households each year.
Since that legislation expired in December, the AMT is in line to hit about 33 million people in the 2012 tax year, the letter said - hitting about 28 million of those families with an unexpectedly large tax bill.
If Congress passes new legislation before the end of the year, Miller wrote, everything would be fine: "The IRS would likely be able to open the 2013 tax filing season with minimal delays for most taxpayers. "However, if there is no AMT patch enacted by the end of the year, there would be serious repercussions for taxpayers.
"Without an AMT patch, about 28 million taxpayers would be faced with a very large, unexpected tax liability for the current tax year (2012). In addition, in order to allow time for the IRS to make the programming changes necessary to conform our processing systems to reflect expiration of the AMT patch and the credit ordering rules, the IRS would, at minimum, need to instruct more than 60 million taxpayers that they may not file their tax returns or receive a refund until the IRS completes the necessary systems changes," Miller wrote.
"Because of the magnitude and complexity of the changes, it is entirely possible that these taxpayers would not be able to file until late March 2013, if not even later. Tens of millions of these taxpayers would unexpectedly have to pay additional income tax for 2012, leaving them with a balance due return or a much smaller refund than expected."
Hatch is the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. Miller wrote the letter in response to requests from Congress about the impact on the agency of the year-end fiscal cliff, which threatens to dramatically change existing tax policy on several fronts, including the AMT.
In the past, Congress has repeatedly provided the agency with "bipartisan, bicameral assurances that Congress was working expeditiously to enact a patch." This year, however, political wrangling over taxes, primarily the expiration of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts, has prevented negotiations over legislation to limit the AMT.
If the AMT is not patched, those hit with the tax could see an average increase of $3,700 in their 2012 tax bills, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.


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I have a habit of picking just the relevant part of the quote to my reply, I see no reason to copy the whole long post if there is just a small point to make. It is more polite to the readers. I also do not understand replies which quote sometimes include a long string of photographs also, which take an awful lot of space and use up bandwidth.
A little topic drift is inevitable in any thread, but this is ridiculous....
For years I have shot political demonstrations - partly as a substitute for street - and because there are always a lot of police about then photographers can shoot away with little fear from members of the public.
...I also do not understand replies which...take an awful lot of space and use up bandwidth...
The barrier is psychological, or even maybe moral, rather than technical.
Penny for your thoughts Ken.
Walter, I am talking about my own inhibitions rather than making any kind of judgement about what other people do. In photographing someone from relatively close up, and where they see I am doing it, it feels to me as if I am making some kind of approach to them, or even claim on them (psychological inhibition) or even intruding on their privacy (moral inhibition). The test of the moral inhibition is whether it would survive if I were out of sight with a long lens. A test which it fails. I also remain somewhat scarred after being denounced as a pervert on a Sydney train for taking shots of fellow travelers with a cell phone.
Sounds like a ready-made lawsuit. Any time a cop even touches your camera he's committed a crime -- unless you were photographing in a restricted military installation or other nationally designated sensitive area.
Any time a cop even touches your camera he's committed a crime
Not over here, Russ. What crime would he have committed in the US?Jeremy
Civil tort of trespass to chattels (that's when I touch your personal property without your permission) or conversion (that's interfering with your possession of your personal property)? However, the analog tort to one's body rather than possessions would be battery (defined as an unpermitted offensive touching), but there are plenty of situations where a cop can touch you or shove you without committing a battery even though you have not been "detained." Likewise, there most likely are situations defined where a copy can interfere with your personal property, but I don't know what they are or how they are determined. Let the topic drift begin....
Torts aren't crimes and in any event "touching" the camera wouldn't come close to either trespass to a chattel or conversion.Jeremy


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Rock promoter Don Kirshner, whom Time magazine once dubbed the "Man With the Golden Ear," died Monday in a Florida hospital, a close friend and business associate said. He was 76.
Promoter Jack Wishna told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kirshner was in a hospital in Boca Raton being treated for an infection.
"Donny Kirshner would take a kid off the street, bring him up to his office in the Brill Building and turn him into Neil Diamond, Carole King, James Taylor, on and on," Wishna said. "I haven't spoken to anyone in the music business that Donny hasn't either discovered, promoted, or touched in some way.
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"I've never seen anybody like this in my life," he said.
Kirshner was behind "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" in 1972, and gave national exposure to musicians including Billy Joel and The Police. The show also boosted careers of comics including Billy Crystal, Arsenio Hall and David Letterman.
The show also featured artists Kirshner helped launch including Prince, The Eagles, Lionel Richie and Ozzy Osborne.
The Brill Building was a hit factory — notable for attracting songwriters, agents and others as tenants. More than 160 of its tenants were in the music industry by the early 1960s, according to New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Wishna said Kirshner was a mentor who knew the art of discovering talent and cared about the artists he worked with.
"He was a father to these people even though some of them were three or four years younger than him," Wishna said.
Wishna said Kirshner was a pioneer who developed a system for singer-songwriters to share in the profits of selling music.
He also ran three labels, Dimension Records, Colgems Records and Kirshner Records, and helped form The Monkees and The Archies, according to the New York Daily News. The paper reported he was also inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007.
Before he died, Kirshner was chief creative officer of Rockrena, a company launching this year to find and promote talent online.


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I am in the midst of making plans to visit New York City this spring after having stumbled across The High Line Park website earlier today. Few things catch my interest as much as this incredible idea for a park built on an abandoned rail line elevated to pass over city streets full of traffic below. What a brilliant solution to a tough problem.
As the city takes the shape of the needs of the current residents, there are bound to be problems that arise. Instead of investing good money into tearing down the elevated rail, it was thought that this could be the site of a public park in a locale where real estate is a commodity few can afford, and where green space is scarce.
Here is a history of the High Line as it is posted on their website:
1847 The City of New York authorizes street-level railroad tracks down Manhattan's West Side.
1851 – 1929 So many accidents occur between freight trains and street-level traffic that 10th Avenue becomes known as Death Avenue. For safety, men on horses, called the West Side Cowboys, ride in front of trains waving red flags.
1929 After years of public debate about the hazard, the City and State of New York and the New York Central Railroad agree on the West Side Improvement Project, which includes the High Line. The entire project is 13 miles long, eliminates 105 street-level railroad crossings, and adds 32 acres to Riverside Park. It costs over $150 million in 1930 dollars—more than $2 billion today.
1934 The High Line opens to trains. It runs from 34th Street to St. John's Park Terminal, at Spring Street. It is designed to go through the center of blocks, rather than over the avenue, to avoid creating the negative conditions associated with elevated subways. It connects directly to factories and warehouses, allowing trains to roll right inside buildings. Milk, meat, produce, and raw and manufactured goods come and go without causing street-level traffic.
1950s Growth of interstate trucking leads to a drop in rail traffic, nationally and on the High Line.
1960s The southernmost section of the High Line is demolished.
1980 The last train runs on the High Line pulling three carloads of frozen turkeys.
Mid-1980s A group of property owners lobbies for demolition of the entire structure. Members of this group own land under the High Line that was purchased at prices reflecting the High Line's easement. Peter Obletz, a Chelsea resident, activist, and railroad enthusiast, challenges demolition efforts in court and tries to re-establish rail service on the Line.
1999 Friends of the High Line is founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, residents of the High Line neighborhood, to advocate for the High Line's preservation and reuse as public open space.
2001 - 2002 The Design Trust for Public Space provides a fellowship for architect Casey Jones to conduct research and outreach for "Reclaiming the High Line," a planning study jointly produced by the Design Trust and Friends of the High Line, which lays out planning framework for the High Line's preservation and reuse.
March 2002 Friends of the High Line gains first City support—a City Council resolution advocating for the High Line's reuse.
October 2002 A study done by Friends of the High Line finds that the High Line project is economically rational: New tax revenues created by the public space will be greater than the costs of construction.
December 2002 The City files with the federal Surface Transportation Board for railbanking, making it City policy to preserve and reuse the High Line.
January – July 2003 An open ideas competition, "Designing the High Line," solicits proposals for the High Line's reuse. 720 teams from 36 countries enter. Hundreds of design entries are displayed at Grand Central Terminal. (View Competition Entries)
July 2003 Friends of the High Line and the City jointly testify before the Surface Transportation Board in support of High Line reuse.
March – September 2004 Mayor Bloomberg announces City funding for the High Line. Friends of the High Line and the City of New York conduct a process to select a design team for the High Line. The selected team is James Corner Field Operations, a landscape architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an architecture firm, and experts in horticulture, engineering, security, maintenance, public art, and other disciplines. (View the High Line Design)
September 2004 The State of New York, CSX Transportation, Inc. (the railroad company), and the City of New York jointly file with the Surface Transportation Board to railbank the High Line.
April 2005 An exhibition showcasing the preliminary design by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro opens at the Museum of Modern Art.
June 2005 The Surface Transportation Board issues a Certificate of Interim Trail Use for the High Line, authorizing the City and railroad to conclude railbanking negotiations.
November 2005 The City takes ownership of the High Line from CSX Transportation, Inc., (which donates the structure), and the City and CSX sign a Trail Use Agreement. Taken together, these two actions effectively preserve the High Line south of 30th Street.
April 2006 Groundbreaking is celebrated on the High Line with the lifting of a rail track. The first phase of construction on Section 1 of the High Line begins. Construction begins on Section 1 (Gansevoort Street to 20th Street). Tracks, ballast, and debris are removed, and the tracks are mapped, tagged, and stored (some will be reinstalled in the park landscape). This is followed sandblasting of steel, repairs to concrete and drainage systems, and installation of pigeon deterrents underneath the Line. (View Construction Photos)
2008 Landscape Construction begins on Section 1, with construction and installation of pathways, access points, seating, lighting, and planting.
June 2008 Final designs are released for the High Line's transformation to a public park. (View the Final Designs)
June 9, 2009 Section 1 (Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street) opens to the public.
June 8, 2011 Section 2 (West 20th Street to West 30th Street) opens to the public.
April 25, 2012 The New York City Planning Commission votes unanimously to approve a zoning text amendment that secures the eastern portion of the High Line at the Rail Yards, including the 10th Avenue Spur, as public open space.
July 25, 2012 The High Line at the Rail Yards is saved. The City of New York acquires the title to the third and final section of the High Line from CSX Transportation, Inc., which donated the final portion of the structure to the City.
September 20, 2012 Groundbreaking is celebrated on the High Line at the Rail Yards. Construction proceeds in three phases, with the first phase projected to open in 2014.
Spring 2014 Nick's first visit to The High Line. (Hopefully Mike will join me--I haven't asked him yet!)
I really can't wait to visit. Spring can't come soon enough! The main images above and below this entry link to The High Line Organization website. All the information you need can be found there.
I'm not a huge fan of Glenn Beck, but I really appreciated this discussion about the Common Core. The Common Core will dictate what every student in the United States should know at the end of each grade from Kindergarten through 12th grade. In this YouTube segment, it is implied that Bill Gates (Microsoft), Yahoo, and Google are dumping millions of dollars into funding for the Common Core Initiative so that students will be educated in the ways of working for Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and the like.
Students, under the direction of teachers who have been taught everything they need to know to prepare students for work in technology related fields, will be funneled into huge corporations as employees that push power to the higher ranks. This will ensure that competition in the form of new upstarts will cease, and these already powerful corporations will become more powerful, and are guaranteed that power for years to come.
This scares the hell out of me. Topics like this have been written about by authors for centuries, and the books they produce have been labeled as dystopian fiction. This isn't fictional, this is real. Welcome to the United Corporations of America.
Further reading: Common Core Initiative Page, Wikipedia Common Core Page
U.S. to Recognize Utah Gay Marriages Despite State Stance
The Obama administration on Friday said that it will recognize as lawful the marriages of 1,300 same-sex couples in Utah, even though the state government is refusing to do so.
Wading into the fast-moving legal battle over same-sex marriage rights in one of America's most socially conservative states, the administration posted a video on the Justice Department's website. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that the federal government will grant federal marriage benefits to the same-sex couples who had rushed to obtain marriage licenses after a federal judge last month unexpectedly struck down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage.
"I am confirming today that, for purposes of federal law, these marriages will be recognized as lawful and considered eligible for all relevant federal benefits on the same terms as other same-sex marriages," Mr. Holder said in the video. "These families should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their status as the litigation unfolds."
Click the article title for full coverage by the New York Times.
My feeling is one of cautious optimism. I think it's great that the U.S. government is going to step in and recognize these marriages, but I'm afraid how this will be viewed by those who advocate state sovereignty. That aside, I think our country is heading in the right direction in terms of recognizing the rights of homosexuals in general. When is Pennsylvania going to join the party?
Rev. Frank Schaefer was, under Methodist church law, sentenced to a thirty day suspension on Tuesday as the result of Monday's hearing which determined he broke his vows by officiating his son's marriage to another man. If, during those thirty days, Rev. Schaefer violates any church laws or breaks another vow, he will lose his credentials. More importantly, the church is calling on Rev. Schaefer to surrender his credentials if he decides he can't uphold all of the church's Book of Discipline.
Before the punishment ruling, Schaefer, who was convicted for officiating at his son's 2007 wedding ceremony in Massachusetts, told the jury Tuesday that he is unrepentant and refused to promise he wouldn't perform more gay unions.
Rather than beg for mercy Tuesday in the trial that has rekindled debate within the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination over church policies on homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the pastor upped the stakes, telling jurors that he has been called by God to be an advocate for the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people.
The church "needs to stop judging people based on their sexual orientation,'' he said. "We have to stop the hate speech. We have to stop treating them as second-class Christians.''
Schaefer donned a rainbow-colored stole on the witness stand and told jurors it symbolized his commitment to the cause.
"I will never be silent again,'' he said, as some of his supporters wept in the gallery. "This is what I have to do.''
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Last night, I was watching documentaries on Netflix with my boyfriend Corey. One of them was called "Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream," which features clips of Ayn Rand speaking about her vision of Laissez Faire Capitalism. This brought me into research mode, wanting to find out a little more about the Ayn Rand Institute. I have loved Ayn Rand and "Atlas Shrugged" for years, but I never knew that ARI was a political powerhouse. On my quest, I came across an article George Saunders had written for the New Yorker called "I Was Ayn Rand's Lover."
I had known about Ayn Rand's affair with Nathaniel Branden from reading her many biographies, in particular "The Passion of Ayn Rand." It creeped me out quite a bit back then, but now to see that she prowled on more than one innocent young man left me with a sour taste. If you know Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism, you wouldn't be too surprised that Nathaniel Branden was a target on her radar. To hear Saunders recount his having essentially been "raped" by her was a little off-putting to say the least, but his developing jealousy over Ayn having set her eyes on a young Paul Ryan disturbed me. It wasn't his feelings of jealousy that disturbed me, rather her voracious appetite for bedding young men in late puberty is what was particularly disturbing.
So, we now know of three men in their late teens who were successfully pursued by Ayn Rand. There are probably plenty more, but my interest stops there. Seeing Paul Ryan run wild with Ayn's version of Laissez Faire Capitalism as it pertains to our present day economy was like being punched in the gut by Ayn Rand herself. All of her theories sound good as just that -- a theory, but when put into practice as Paul Ryan has done as a congressman, they are truly frightening. I don't know what plagues me more: the affairs with young boys, or being disillusioned by Paul Ryan's crazy plans for American prosperity.
To understand what I'm talking about, you'll have to do a little research. Most of it can be done by watching the "Park Avenue" documentary, reading "Atlas Shrugged," "The Passion of Ayn Rand" (also a film), and then reading George Saunder's New Yorker piece (which is very well-written, I might add). It amounts to a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, I'll bet, because that's what I'm feeling right now. It can all be summed up in one word: UGH!
Watch the entire "Park Avenue" documentary:
Barbara Branden (Nathaniel Branden's wife) on The Passion of Ayn Rand:
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By Matt Payne, Examiner.com
Imagine this scenario:
You get home from work on Friday night and get the urge to climb a 14er. Your friends you usually go with are all busy. You take one last desperate attempt to find a hiking partner by posting on 14ers.com, and to your surprise, 6 people respond wanting to go. You pick the first person that responds, meet them at the trailhead for Blanca Peak and Ellingwood Point early Saturday morning and begin your long hike up to Lake Como. After you pass Lake Como and reach treeline, you begin the steep ascent of Blanca Peak. Your hiking partner, just feet in front of you, begins to have an epileptic seizure, causing you to go into panic. How will you respond to their medical crisis on the side of a 14er? Wouldn't it have been nice to have been alerted of this condition up front so that you could learn how you should respond, or decline the hike altogether?
Unfortunately, scenarios like this are all too common in the high country. In fact, the above scenario happened just last year – the person with the seizure ignored pleas of their hiking partners to head back down and continued on after their seizure, and eventually required a helicopter rescue, but not after needing her newfound hiking partners to spend the night with them through a thunderstorm at 13,000 ft. These sorts of fiascos can be avoided if everyone involved as new hiking partners did some honest questioning up-front.
I am not suggesting that people with medical conditions should be avoided like the plague, rather, that careful selection and questioning of new hiking partners will afford you the time and resources to make important (and potentially critical) decisions on who to hike with or not. I'm going to be honest, I may be overly selective of my hiking partners. I've had one too many bad experiences with strangers to know that the best thing for me to do is to ask questions. Think of it like dating. Would you marry someone before dating them? Not me. Nor should you blindly hike in strenuous situations with people you don't know (at least without some base knowledge beforehand).
Here's what I'm suggesting – and I hope you're still with me on this. Find out what kind of experience your potential partner has in the level of activity you are going to be engaging in. Doing some roped climbing? It may be comforting to learn that your partner actually knows how to belay. Climbing a long 14er? Get a feel for how many 14ers they have climbed and which ones. I'm not suggesting you be an elitist, rather, get to know the person's experience and ability beforehand so you can A) decline the invitation, or B) know that you'll need to take it slow, or step up your game (if they are a much better hiker than yourself).
Here are some questions I like to ask:
1. Do you have any medical conditions? If they do, this allows you to learn how this may impact your hike and/or your response to that condition if it should present itself during the hike.
2. What mountains have you climbed before (or hikes have you done, etc)? This allows you to gauge the person's abilities and accomplishments. Someone with far fewer accomplishments than you may turn out to be a superior hiker; however, it may be useful to learn that they are afraid of heights before you attempt to climb Little Bear Peak.
3. What kind of pace you do like to hike at? This allows you to gauge how compatible you are with the other hiker. Perhaps you'll need to agree up-front on a signal to stop or that you want them to wait up for you, etc. These are important things to learn.
4. What do you do for a living? It's always nice to get to know the person you'll be spending the day with!
5. Do you have (x, y, z) piece of equipment that we'll need? This will allow you to make sure the person is prepared and if they need you to bring anything for them to borrow.
This all may sound a little silly to you, but trust me, you don't want to find yourself in the situation I described above unwillingly. Your hiking partner's life (and possibly yours) may well depend on how you select your hiking partner and what kinds of questions you ask before the hike begins.
And just to be clear, one last time: I am not suggesting you become an elitist. Just this past summer I hiked with two different people that I did not know before the hike, neither of which had hiked a 14er before. However, I had no reservations on hiking with them because I was able to learn about them and their abilities, health, etc. As it turned out, they were most excellent hiking partners that often left me in the dust!
Finally, I would also suggest that a simple round of questioning is a great way to break the ice and learn about the person. You never know, they may just turn out to be a friend for life!


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In line of fire over his alleged hate speech, VHP leader Praveen Togadia today said he was ready to go to jail for the sake of Hindutva.
"I am ready to go to jail...I am ready to do anything for Hindutva," Togadia, who is at the Kumbh Mela, told PTI over phone.
"It is no crime to speak in the interest of the country," he said.
Maharashtra Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Venkatesh Abdeo, on whose phone the call was made, threatened, "there will be severe reaction all over the country if Togadia is arrested.
Togadia has not done anything wrong by speaking about Akbaruddin Owaisi."
He also dared the government to arrest Togadia "if it has guts."
A case has been filed at a police station in Nanded in connection with the hate speech allegedly made by Togadia last month.
Yesterday, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil had said that the state government was seeking legal opinion on taking further action against Togadia.
"We are seeking legal opinion because we don't want to crush anybody's freedom of expression," Patil had said.
The minister had said the government would not tolerate anybody making inflammatory speeches and sowing seeds of hatred in the society.
At a public meeting at Bhokar town in Maharashtra's Nanded district on January 22, Togadia had allegedly attacked Hyderabad-based Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi.
Owaisi was later sent to jail on charges of delivering a hate speech at Nirmal town in Andhra Pradesh's Adilabad district last month.
The VHP leader had also triggered a controversy by making an alleged speech on February 1 near Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.


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DESCRIPTIONThis package contains routines to convert between syslog priorities and logging levels: level_from_prio(``crit'') yields 2, and prio_from_level(4) yields ``warning'', as does prio_from_level(5).
Here are the known priorities (which may be abbreviated to the first 2 letters, in a case-insensitive manner) and their corresponding logging level:
Name Level Traditional Export --------- ----- -------------- ------ none -1 NONE (special, see text) emergency 0 (emerg, panic) EMERG alert 1 ALERT critical 2 (crit) CRIT error 3 (err) ERROR warning 4 WARN notice 6 NOTICE info 8 INFO debug 10 DEBUG
The values between parenthesis show the traditional syslog priority tokens. The missing levels (5, 7, 9) are there for possible extension. They currently map to the level immediately below.
The Export column lists the symbolic constants defined by this package. They can be imported selectively, or alltogether via the ":LEVELS" tag, as in:
use Log::Agent::Priorities qw(:LEVELS);
The special token ``none'' may be used (and spelled out fully) on special occasions: it maps to -1, and is convenient when specifying a logging level, for instance: specifying ``none'' ensures that no logging will take place, even for emergency situations.
Anywhere where a priority is expected, one may specify a number taken as a logging level or a string taken as a priority. If the default mapping outlined above is not satisfactory, it can be redefined by specifying, for instance "notice:9". It will be taken as being of level 9, but with a "notice" priority nonetheless, not "info" as it would have been implicitely determined otherwise.
The routine priority_level() decompiles "notice:9" into (``notice'', 9), and otherwise uses prio_from_level() or level_from_prio() to compute the missing informatin. For instance, given ``critical'', priority_level() routine will return the tuple (``critical'', 2).


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The Trading Standards Institute has launched a site to help consumers spot fake branded goods.
The site, Brand-i, lets you search by brand and shows a list of official retailers for that brand. But even a quick check suggests this runs the risk of branding perfectly legitimate small firms as rogue retailers.
Search results do come with a disclaimer: "This is not necessarily a fully comprehensive list of stockists for this brand. There may be other e-commerce sites which are legitimately selling genuine products, but these sites may not be controlled, endorsed, checked or confirmed by the brand owners and so do not appear in the directory."
But depending solely on the brand owners for this information risks labelling legitimate companies as dodgy, since most brands are sold through a web of distributors and wholesalers.
A search for Acer returns no results at all, while searching for HP recommends a check for Davina Shoes and five other fashion retailers, or an irrelevant page of Orange's music service.
The site is still collecting brand information, and also offers advice on checking physical addresses, VAT registration and secure payment services. It also advises punters to search online for evidence of other disappointed customers of an unknown retailer.
We've been promised an interview with Brand-i later today. ®


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Middle school teacher accused of sex with a student back in court
A judge Tuesday refused to transfer a former Spring Branch middle school teacher to a mental health clinic after the woman was accused of having sex with one of her students last year and harboring him as a runaway last month.
State District Judge Michael McSpadden declined to move 29-year-old Kathryn Camille Murray to a private clinic after her attorneys argued she is suicidal.
"The court finds there are sufficient mental health resources at the Harris County jail," McSpadden ruled after Tuesday's hearing.
Mentally 'unstable'
Murray's attorneys said she has become extremely depressed, psychologically and physically unstable and disoriented, according to court records.
"The seriousness of her mental state leaves her at risk of suicide," according to motions filed by her lawyers.
They asked to move her to a psychiatric clinic where she could be held in "lock-down" until she is no longer a danger to herself or others.
Prosecutor Sunni Mitchell argued that Murray may be able to simply sign herself out of a private facility instead of remaining in custody.
'Stay in jail'
Murray was charged last year with three counts of sexual abuse and one count of improper relationship with a child. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted of the second-degree felonies.
The bilingual language arts teacher was fired from Memorial Middle School after being accused of inappropriate behavior with an eighth-grader. She allegedly had sex with the boy several times in his home, at a hotel and in her classroom last year.
In January, Murray was arrested and charged with harboring a runaway after the same teen was found at her home while she was free on bail in the case.
The teen's mother, who attended the hearing without her son, said Murray needs to stay in jail.
"He's not doing well," she said about her son's condition.


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Shirayuki Towel Yuzen Dyed {Old Pine}
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The beautiful Yuzen-dyed Shirayuki Towels come from Nara, an ancient capital city of Japan near Kyoto, and they are made of 8 layers of a fabric that was once woven into mosquito nets called "kaya". These cloths are very soft, durable and absorbent and are perfect for using as dish cloths and wash/hand towels. Over time, the cloths become really soft and supple, and eventually they make great rags. The starch needs to be washed off before the first use.
About the material:
Kaya is a woven fabric made with cotton, linen and rayon. Shirayuki towels are made with cotton and rayon. Rayon is a recycled fiber made from plant based material - wood pulp. It's more absorbent than cotton and linen and it is suited for use in kitchen.
Unlike synthetic fibers made from petroleum, rayon fibers degrade and return to soil faster than cotton.
Each towel is coated with starch, which is made from potato grown in Kagoshima prefecture. It can be washed off with warm water before the first use.
Made in Japan.
Measurements: 30cm x 40cm (11.81" x 15.74")
Material: Cotton / Rayon


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Earlier this year, Frontline Producer released their 'Ultimate Drums' sample pack, which brings together a selection of loops and samples for use in a variety of different genres. However, as you've probably already guessed, the samples included in this pack were captured almost exclusively with sE Electronics microphones; more specifically a pair of sE1as, a pair of sE4s, an sE 2200a, a pair of sE4400as and an sE Rupert Neve RNR1 ribbon mic.
CLICK HERE to read the full interview and learn a little about what the microphones were used for.


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Beyond automated testing
I've been always a big fan of automated testing. I pushed my old team at a local software business company to create hours of Rational Robot (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/robot/index.html) GUI tests. It was very good since they were not using any kind of automated testing before, and it actually played its magic: hundreds of business scenarios were covered, starting from the core ones, the one that shouldn't ever fail, so show-stopper errors rapidly started to vanish.
First steps are so easy...
It's always great to automate at projects were they don't have any previous experience since a small effort returns a huge improvement. The team won't probably ever climb the quality ladder as fast as they do when they introduce serious testing, issue tracking and version control... once the basics are covered the next stairs become much harder.
Testing is all about project management
When you talk about testing, automated or any other kind, everyone starts thinking about how product quality will raise, how it will affect the way customers perceive the product and how it will affect sales.
But for me, as a project manager who wants his team to survive the current project and hopefully a few more, it will just bring calm to the team.
Let me explain: yes, I do care about product quality, sales, reducing the bug count and so on, but what I like about testing is that it allows developers to do their job as they like to do: without urgent rushes and unexpected crisis.
Automated testing won't cover everything (unless you enjoy the kind of unlimited resources I never had) but it will avoid priority one bugs, the ones that stop your daily tasks, they ones you have to fix immediately to deliver a new release, the ones altering your schedule while you see how your plan vanishes.
When a show-stopper is found, especially by a customer, all the team will rush to solve it, it's mandatory, is a big priority. So it won't matter how good your SCRUM sprint was planned, or how detailed your wall-wide Project Gantt chart is: you'll have to switch to abandon the plan and fix the dammed bug.
Automated tests will prevent this to happen so you and your team will be able to focus on what you said you were going to do, so everyone around will feel better, and upper management will feel you've things under control. And all started with some small xUnit tests and hopefully a number of UI automated tests.
Warning: developer way of thinking
But the story does not always have a happy ending: if the tests are created by developers, chances are the whole test suite will be covering canonical scenarios only. I mean, if you've a command accepting three parameters, chances are developers will test the weirdest combinations of the right parameters triggering the most complex possible calculation, but won't create a test to check how the command breaks if a wrong number of parameters or illegal input is entered.
We've a big test suite composed of unit tests, automated command line based tests and UI ones, but we still miss exception scenarios sometimes.
So, it seems extremely positive to include real testers (I mean, normally not being tied to the active development, although the real structure and background will vary, as exceptionally explained here: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams) who can bring fresh air and a user point of view to the project.
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I just ran across this interview with Victor Davis Hanson, who's one of my favorite public intellectuals. I had the honor of meeting him when he spoke at UT a few years ago. Most of the interview deals with modern-day foreign policy, but check out Hanson's remarks about the importance of military history. Here are the highlights:
"Not all history is equal. If people are willing to wage their entire existence in a few brief seconds, those moments are more worthy of commemoration and study than others.…[W]hether we like it or not, strange things happen during wars that don't transpire as often in peace time."
When asked about Peace Studies departments' attitudes about military history, Hanson takes the words right out of my mouth with an analogy that I've used myself:
"They think we feel that war brings out the best in people, that war is a ritual that's necessary for society, or that war is a macabre interest like video games are for some people. It's like assuming an oncologist must like cancer, because why else would he study cancer?"
Precisely. In fact, the military historian should be less prone to glory in war than anyone but the soldier, since he knows what war is and what it can do. Those who accuse military historians of glorying in war are badly in error. You don't study war because you like it; you study it because it's important, instructive, and (by all indications) here to stay.


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This past week in TampaCuse, the Lightning went 1-1, defeating Montreal after losing late to the Maple Leafs. In Syracuse, the Crunch continue to struggle, going 0-3. The boys in blue and/or orange lost to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Utica, and Norfolk.
Random thoughts on the week:
1. The big news in the organization (Tampa and beyond) was Riku Helenius' breach of contract on top of the game of goalie musical chairs played by Lightning GM Steve Yzerman and Assistant GM Julien BriseBois. In case you missed it, injuries to Ben Bishop and Anders Lindback meant Syracuse 'tenders Cedrick Desjardins and Kristers Gudlevskis were called up to Tampa (who was in Montreal). Helenius, fresh off being pulled again (third time) by the Florida Everblades, had left the team and was suspended. The Crunch ended up using an ECHL-loaned goalie in net and due to travel complications, their new back-up was some dude who got 300 dollars and a customized jersey. Rumors of Dunkin Donut coupons were unconfirmed. Reports said 46-year-old John Parks, a local high school coach, offered to pay to play. I would have offered more. Maybe it's because I just entered my 40's kicking and screaming, but Mr. Parks is now my hero. What a story to tell.
2. Speaking of Riku… Hard to believe now he was a mid-first round draft pick at a time when the Lightning were desperate for goaltending (not the most recent time, but 2006, post-Khabibulin and Johnny Shortside). Some publications thought Riku should get a chance in the NHL within two years of being drafted because 1) he was lauded as an outstanding talent and 2) Tampa was that bad in net. His story is well-documented now, but what's forgotten here, in my opinion, is that he's… wait for it… a human being. When I talked to him after his preseason appearance for the Lightning this past fall, he was pretty happy with his performance (and rightfully so) and was visibly hopeful he'd get another preseason game with Tampa Bay. It didn't happen, but he wanted/wants the opportunity for success. He's not a slacker or a lazy player or a me-first guy. Goalies need precise focus, and here's a guy in the last year of his contract just a few months removed from his mother passing away and he's thousands of miles from home (if you'll recall, he stayed in Finland for several weeks after his mother's death late last season). Having lost my mother, I feel for the guy. It's been a rough road for him, and while not every decision he and/or his agent have made have been the best, he's a good human being. I think the best thing for him as a player and a person is to go home near family next year and re-start his European pro career. Best of luck to him.
3. If you follow me on Twitter (@boltprospects), you know I never shut up about Nikita Kucherov. I've watched a lot of hockey in my day, and what impresses me most about players are the things that you rarely see – and usually that's an exceptional shot or exceptional vision. I have a high appreciation for players that think the game at a different level than everyone else. Like many, when I watch a game I rarely watch the puck. I like to see the big picture: where the passing lanes are and who's doing what away from the puck. I like to identify options as they present themselves. It's very rare that a play is made successfully via an option I couldn't see (defensive schemes are too good, it's not that I'm smart). Yet this is what Kucherov does. He was originally thought to be a goal scorer with a nice side dish of … well, dishing… but his playmaking and vision are vastly underrated. He's going to be a star some day… as long as he keeps his shoot/pass balance in check. Failure to do so is called "Purcelling." (Sorry, Teddy. Shoot more.)
4. JP Cote had a helluva hit against Brendan Gallagher in Montreal. Textbook. Gallagher had his head down and likely won't make that mistake again anytime soon. Cote hit Gallagher like a sledgehammer hits a melon [1]. If Cote had Barberio's hair and a mustache – and you were 40 or older – that joke might make sense. Or be remotely funny. At any rate, Cote continues to do the little things well, but even he would tell you he has limitations at the NHL level. He's great for the room and as a No. 7. His value may best be used for the organization back in The Cuse right now, though. Syracuse's defense needs another top-4 AHL defenseman to go with Sustr, Witkowski, and Taormina. Sergeev is understandably green, Nesterov is better served as a 5-6 right now, and Mormina probably the same or at 7. Korobov has good games and bad. Witko-Taormina, Cote-Sustr, Korobov-Mormina, Nesterov/Sergeev is a defensive lineup I could live with.
5. This should go without saying, but don't expect too much too soon from Stamkos if he returns on Saturday as projected. Hopefully his linemates don't stand and watch to see how he's doing. Stamkos has to fit into what TB has going right now. The train's not stopping so he can get on gingerly.
6. Matt Peca had a strong game for Quinnipiac last weekend, scoring once and adding two assists. The Bobcats are a top-3 team again. Peca's numbers are okay, but not where they were last year. As always, there's a reason behind stat trends. Last year Peca was with the Jones brothers on the top line as a left winger. This year he's been playing a 2-way center role, which will come in handy for QU next season when he's likely the team's top-line center. Peca was drafted as a center. I think he gets a contract after next season.
7. Jimmy Mullin's RedHawks didn't play last weekend, but he was a scratch again the weekend before that. You don't like to see that from a junior, especially for an underachieving team. He's got an uphill battle for a contract. Brendan O'Donnell has to step up his game to get a contract, too. He's a nice collegiate player, but there are dozens and dozens of those.
8. Dana Tyrell is doing what Dana Tyrell does for Syracuse: high character, high effort, good impact. If Mike Angelidis isn't re-signed, Tyrell (if re-signed) could be a candidate for Syracuse's captain next year. He's responsible and quick enough to be a serviceable fourth liner should the Lightning need a call-up. Dreams of a top-6/9 2-way role in the NHL are probably over, however, for the former Prince George captain.
9. Syracuse vets have to be better. Two years ago in Norfolk, Tampa Bay had the kids surrounded by vets who could help the team on and off the ice. And when I say "help" on the ice, I mean they were impact players, not only role players. Last year the organization made a decision to sign vet role players rather than offense-first guys in order for the kids to lead the charge. That worked, too (and seeing the success of Johnson, Palat, and Gudas at the NHL level, you can see why/how). This year, I think BriseBois probably expected more out of Rankin and Walker than they've received. As of this posting, Rankin has 10 goals and 17 points in 35 games, Walker 4-2-6 in 36. At least BriseBois went out and got DiSalvatore to help (4-8-12 in 18), but they're not getting (and they need) Trevor Smith production (26-43-69 in 64 GP for Norfolk), or Brandon Segal (18-18-36 in 61 for Norfolk). BriseBois made an in-season move last year to help in this area, sending Kyle Wilson packing for Dan Sexton. Anyone else miss JT Wyman next to Angelidis? If BriseBois doesn't make another offense-related move soon, Syracuse has no chance at the playoffs (and it's minimal as is). Don't forget Richard Panik is going to Russia for a few weeks, too.
10. Radko Gudas has played a lot of minutes as a rookie this season, but he played a lot of minutes last year in the AHL, too. This may come as a surprise, but the NHL grind is harder than the AHL. Shocker, I know. I wonder if Gudas has hit a mental/focus wall in 2014. He's had a lot more turnovers and questionable decisions lately and hasn't been going out of his way for hits near as much. He could be hurt, too. Last year he had an upper body injury few knew about and he played through it.
11. STOP THE PRESSES: Ondrej Palat was rewarded for all his work with an NHL Player of the Month award. For a guy that gets so little national attention, this is fantastic. I've had a few healthy discussions as of late as to who is the most valuable rookie on the Lightning, Johnson or Palat? Or is it Gudas? (Slump or not, can you imagine the defense without him?)
12. I hope Jon Cooper added the following to his set-play book: "The one where Subban scores for us." For all the bad Lightning luck this season, that was nice. Maybe he was rewarding Yzerman for naming him to Team Canada. This play can only work against the Habs. Or the Bruins when Malcolm comes up. Or Jordan when he makes the Canucks in a few years. See, this play has potential.
13. I hope everyone is open minded enough to put Mark Barberio's rough start in the rearview mirror. He's fun to watch when his confidence is oozing like mousse from a Vidal Sassoon bottle.
14. This is past due, but my midseason Lightning awards: MVP – Ben Bishop, Top Rookie – Tie between 9 and 18 (taking easy way out), Top Defenseman – Victor Hedman, Top Defensive Forward – Ondrej Palat, Best Story – Jon Cooper. Next time you're standing in line at the Wulmurt, think about how bad the Lightning were defensively last year compared to this year, then think about the fact they've been able to do add defense while still generating offensive chances and not adding a free agent. Without Stamkos. I think Cooper should be Time's Person of the Year. His discarded pink gum should be sold on eBay for millions.
15. So, the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. As someone who would love to live in Seattle some day, I was pretty happy. Few picked them to win, and did anyone pick them to blow out the Broncos? This is why excessive game previews are useless to me. I was able to escape all of it, so I consider that a win.
16. Last week I told you to consider picking up Gustav Nyquist (keep an eye on Zetterberg's return now). I hope you did and had him in your lineup on Sunday for his hat trick. I did in one of my leagues. In the other I needed to drop someone mid-week and chose him in order to add Scrivens. Oh the desperation of finding decent goalies. This week, my advice is for keeper leaguers. If you have the keeper spots available for defensemen, look at acquiring Jacob Trouba of the Jets before the end of the year. He's going to be outstanding. I also suggest setting a reminder to pick up Jonathan Drouin in Yahoo! leagues before the end of the year. I've had him sitting on my bench all year in my main (Lightning fan-heavy) league. I'm re-building after last year's championship (had to include that part).
17. Last month, accomplished Kamloops Daily News Sports Editor Gregg Drinnan lost his job when the paper closed after 80 years. Drinnan always had insider notes from around the WHL and I'd check his blog almost daily for notes on Lightning prospects (back when TB had WHL prospects). He's still running a blog [2], just not with a paper. For as big as they are, the Tampa Bay Times and Tampa Tribune just have one writer each for the Lightning. Make it a part of your daily Web routine to read the work of Erik Erlendsson (Trib) [3] and Damian Cristodero (Times) [4]. (Yes, I realize some of the Times' site is pay-to-read. Adjust accordingly.) You're probably already following them on Twitter, so pat yourself on the back.
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Pete - @jollymeangiant
Tim - @exterminatorx
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Column: Boxing tries to appeal to the masses once again
Boxing fans get an early holiday gift Saturday when two masterful fighters with four Olympic gold medals between them meet in an intriguing 130-pound title bout.
The best part? It won't cost them anything over their basic cable bill to watch it.
The future of boxing is changing, or so Bob Arum believes. And nowhere is that more evident than the card put together by the longtime promoter in the theater at Madison Square Garden.
Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux — one from Ukraine, the other Cuba — meet in a title clash that is as good as it gets in the lower weight classes. And they do on ESPN instead of pay-per-view or the premium cable networks that have dominated boxing in the past.
Boxing is back in front of the masses. And so far the masses seem to like what they're seeing.
"A lot more people will be aware of these guys than if they fought on a premium network," Arum said. "We have a much bigger megaphone with a 24-hour sports network."
Arum's new alliance with the cable network giant started in July when Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn drew some 3 million viewers for their fight in Australia. Lomachenko drew decent ratings on a card of his own, and Terence Crawford was also featured in a Saturday night broadcast in August.
And with 18 dates scheduled for next year on ESPN — many of them in the prime Saturday night slot — expect to see Top Rank's best fighters on a regular basis on the network.
"You'd have to go back to the '70s to a time when all the big fights were on free TV," Arum said. "In the '80s we had less and less, and then we had none to speak of."
Boxing's reliance on paid TV gave the top fighters big paydays over the years, and served promoters like Arum well. Showtime and HBO paid well for the big fights, and the biggest went to pay-per-view.
But it was a flawed business model for long term success. Fans didn't get to see their favorite fighters in the ring enough, and promoters treated each fight card as if it were a one-off event.
Arum was one of the guilty, and admits he and fellow promoters did the sport wrong while chasing profits.
"You're 100 percent right for implicating me and the other promoters," Arum said. "We went for the catnip, there's no question about that. But what we did was shrink our product, and shrink the acceptance of our product."
The idea of bringing boxing back to prime-time network TV is not a new one. The secretive Al Haymon has put his stable of Premier Boxing Champions fighters on network TV for the last three years, though they have bounced around on different networks and have mainly of late been relegated to lower-tier cable networks.
But Arum believes the strategy spearheaded by his stepson, Todd duBoef, to have a stable of boxers each fight three to four times a year on regularly scheduled ESPN cards will provide the same kind of name recognition and continuity that UFC has used so successfully in its TV model.
Lomachenko will be a key test of that theory. The boxer who won two Olympic golds for Ukraine came to the U.S. to make himself a big name, and his appearance on a card heavily promoted by ESPN will go a long way to turning him into more of a household name.
Rigondeaux also has two gold medals he won for Cuba and is undefeated in 17 pro fights. The big knock on Rigondeaux is that he is too defensive and won't exchange in fights, though Arum believes that will change when Lomachenko pressures him Saturday in New York.
"He's got the Cuban style and doesn't take chances to win decisions, but he can't do that with Lomachenko," Arum said. "Lomachenko won't let him pile up a big points lead and then it becomes a real fight. I think Lomachenko knocks him out in the late rounds."
In an interesting programming note, HBO will also televise a card Saturday from Las Vegas featuring Orlando Salido, the only fighter to beat Lomachenko.
The day after the Garden fight, Arum — who turns 86 on Friday — gets on a plane for Australia for Horn's title defense next Wednesday against Gary Corcoran, which will be seen in the early morning hours in the U.S. on ESPN. There are plans for another Pacquiao fight in the spring as well as a Crawford fight, with the possibility the two will meet in the fall.
There's a long way to go, and promises have been broken in boxing before. But Arum believes the sport can overcome its own self-inflicted mistakes.
"Everyone was to blame, there wasn't just one culprit," he said. "It was the disease of being short-sighted."
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg


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ANN ARBOR, MI – 01-08-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Investment Drives Commercial Expansion into Pharma and Clinical Diagnostic Labs
Genomenon® announced that it has completed a $2.5M equity financing round. The financing will expand the company's commercial reach with clinical diagnostic labs, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies.
Genomenon connects patient DNA with the evidence in scientific literature to help doctors provide faster and better treatment decisions for patients with rare diseases and cancer.
In the last year, over 2,000 clinicians and researchers from 35 countries started using Genomenon's Mastermind® Genomic Search Engine – which is quickly becoming the gold standard for genomic interpretation.
Investors in this round include IrishAngels, H. W. Kaufman Group, and all of Genomenon's earlier investors including the company's CEO, Mike Klein. The company initially set out to raise $2.0M in new financing, but with strong interest from both current and new investors, the round was oversubscribed.
"IrishAngels is happy to join Genomenon as an investor" said Kaitlyn Doyle, Director of IrishAngels. "The revolutionary technology behind Genomenon's Mastermind Genomic Search Engine will have a huge impact on the interpretation of genomic data, and this team has the requisite experience to scale the company to its potential."
"We've seen strong demand from clinical labs desiring to accelerate their genomic interpretation process, and from pharmaceutical companies who want to license the data," said Mike Klein, CEO of Genomenon. "Mastermind is eliminating the variant interpretation bottleneck for clinical labs and providing pharma and biotech companies with a comprehensive genomic landscape in order to identify genomic biomarkers for drug discovery and clinical trials."
Genomenon is using the funds to accelerate its commercial efforts by investing in marketing and building out its sales team to handle growing customer demand. The company has a number of new job postings on its website at www.genomenon.com/about/#hiring.
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Genomenon puts all the genomic research at doctor's fingertips for faster & more comprehensive diagnosis and treatment decisions. Our flagship product, the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine, provides immediate insight into the published genomic research for every disease, gene, and genetic variant found in the literature.
Used by hundreds of diagnostic labs around the world, Mastermind accelerates genomic interpretation by providing unique insight into genomic relationships found in the full text of millions of scientific articles.
Pharmaceutical researchers license the Mastermind database for a comprehensive genomic landscape associated with any given disease – to identify and prioritize genomic biomarkers for drug discovery and clinical trial targets. For more information, visit www.genomenon.com.
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