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With respect to prenatal resistance training, however, the information is limited. Once a woman becomes pregnant it may be difficult for her to find approval for beginning such a program. Therefore this article offers a different perspective on exercise and pregnancy, a philosophical perspective focusing on when a woman should train for this important time of life. It is not within the scope of this perspective to address specific exercise prescription.
I often discuss exercise programs with women who suddenly become motivated to begin exercising when they first learn they are pregnant. Although they're somewhat apprehensive, I encourage them to feel at ease with an appropriate prenatal program because research supports this idea. Furthermore, it has been established that exercise during pregnancy can result in benefits1. My position, however, is that women should train for pregnancy before becoming pregnant. Then the prenatal classes could be more appropriately used as part of a maintenance program throughout gestation.
Pregnancy is accompanied by substantial physiological and morphological changes: increased metabolic rate and heat production, as well as decreased cardiac output, A-VO2 difference, and proprioception have been reported 3,4,6,8,9. Because of this, prudent modifications of the guidelines for designing a general fitness program have been suggested for women who have no complications during pregnancy 2. Further modifications should be considered, even to the point of curtailing the program, for women with certain medical or obstetric conditions 1.
In summary, what we've learned from the research is that it is all right, even beneficial, to
exercise during pregnancy. The suggested modifications are simply a way to contend with the natural limitations of the body. The key phrase here is natural limitations of the body. Wouldn't it be more wise to train prior to conception when a woman would be free of any limitations?
At the risk of arguing semantics, I have substituted "exercise" during pregnancy with "training" prior to conception. The concept of training more clearly defines intent. In terms of pursuing an objective, the elite athlete training to overcome the opponent is similar to the average individual training to overcome the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. It is this establishment of the objective that leads to the development of a prescription of exercise specific to the endeavor or event.
Likewise, a pregnant woman faces continual physiological and morphological opposition throughout her pregnancy. Wouldn't a training program specific to preparing for these changes seem logical? In addition to the philosophical aspect of "training" versus "exercise" is the even more important issue of intensity.
A specific training program infers work at a greater intensity. Granted, the research now suggests there is no indication that pregnant women need to limit their exercise intensity 1. However, intensity usually refers only to the cardiovascular consideration. It seems rather imprudent to ignore the question of intensity for resistance training. I would hope that competitive athletes do not assume they can continue their normal resistance training intensity during pregnancy.

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Tell us about your work at Accenture.
I am based in Italy and work as a trusted advisor to business and IT executives looking to drive sales, revenue and profit margin growth. I've been working in consulting, strategy and IT-enabled business transformation for retail enterprise accounts for the past 15 years.
You recently made a transition from being an analyst to consulting. How has the change been for you?
I was actually with Andersen Consulting back in the day, and moved to enterprise software and enterprise solution companies. Then I was an analyst for quite a few years at IDC, running their international retail advisor practices. Now I'm back to, as someone says, the "dark side." I love it. What fascinates me is the skill and breadth of things we can do at Accenture. Here, you're empowered to really shape those assets, shape the best team to better serve the industry and your clients. That adds creativity to the job and gives me a lot of satisfaction.
What is the retail trend that you think is the most valuable and why?
I think it's actually a combination of trends. Seamless is still the biggest thing in the industry. I'm saying "still" because again, it's something I've been observing, driving and working on for six years now. Also, digital transformations and price optimization need to go hand-in-hand to drive that seamless experience in a profitable manner for the organization.
For retailers that are looking to transform, what should be their top priority?
Consumers, easy.
What emerging technologies are you especially excited about?
I think mobile is huge. Mobile-enabled transactions, mobile-guided shopping experiences are a big thing, and many are still putting their head around it. I'm seeing a lot of robust solutions around in-store analytics. Typically you know everything your customer is doing on an eCommerce website, but the store is kind of a black box unless you have good eyes, or good ways or sensors to capture that information. That's exciting.
What could retailers learn from other industries?
There are a lot of things to learn, but I'll focus on two. One is the opportunity to adopt new technologies.
Other industries like Consumer Products or Telecommunications tend to have more of a service approach to build the platform underlying customer-facing activities, rather than investing in single technology silos. The other thing is being more creative around how you can delve up entirely new business models and rally new markets.
What do you see as the biggest challenge that retailers currently face?
I cannot give you a single answer because there are so many variations, even on a country level. So it's probably the ability for customers to not just be your customers when the stores are open or when they are hooking up on a competitor website. It's the ability to capture what we call the non-stop customer behavior in such a way that it goes behind the four walls of your enterprise. It's having a more transparent view of what's around you, of what's around your organization, your value proposition and try to engage and capture what you know can augment your brand as a platform for customers.
What is the best seamless retail experience you've ever had?
There have been pockets of situations where I've had digitally augmented interactions with the retailer, but I still think a lot needs to be done in the industry from that perspective. Especially in the region I come from, Europe, Italy and all the emerging markets like Russia or the Middle East, it's still a long way to go compared to the US.
What was your most memorable project?
Back in 2008 when omni-channel was just a concept, I had the fortune to work with the team at IDC. We drove a transformation project for a retailer, and the difficulty was that no assets were available at that point in time, so we had to build an ecosystem. We needed new capabilities, new software…especially software solutions and processes that could deliver seamless. We were calling it omni-channel at that time, but we were really driving a seamless ecosystem to act in a successful manner.
When you go shopping, are you always thinking about what can be improved?
I wouldn't say always. Sometimes I just go out and have fun, but in probably 80 percent of the times, I think critically about what kind of scenarios could I enable. If it is a client of ours, I get in touch with them and tell them what I think they should do differently. Then I go back to work and look how I can help make those things better.


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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy have received an extra special gift in the lead up to Christmas – they have welcomed their first child.
The "Homeland" star gave birth to a son, named Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy, on Monday.
It's been a stellar year for the actress; she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe for her performance on the hit show last week.
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Remeber the old TV show of the flash been trying to find mule version of it but can not seam to find much.. TVU dosn't have many on offer...
Any help. I seam to remeber Max saying he watched it recently.
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The Flash is the story of Barry Allen, a police scientist who is the victim of a freak accident. While working late, his lab is hit by lightning. The blast shatters a number of vials, so Barry is both electrocuted and bathed in dozens of chemicals.
When he recovers, Barry finds that he has gained the ability to move at almost incomprehensible speed. Fellow scientist Christina (Tina) McGee works with Barry to help him control his newfound powers, even constructing a suit for him which will not be destroyed by his speed.
Donning the red and yellow suit, Barry hides his identity from the world as he uses his powers to fight those who the police cannot catch. In doing so he begins to create the legend of the anonymous scarlet speedster known only as The Flash.
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One of the more exciting and atmospheric TV adaptations of a popular comic book series, The Flash benefited from terrific special effects, but lasted only a single year on its network in 1990. The series stuck to the Scarlet Speedster's origins: police scientist Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) is struck by lightning during an experiment, and chemicals splashed on him during the accident give him the ability to move at incredible speeds (note: hardcore comic fans know that this is the origin for the '60s version of the Flash, not his WWII-era identity). The series partnered him with an attractive fellow scientist (Amanda Pays) who assists Barry in his crime-fighting pursuits. Where the show deviated from its source material was its choice of combatants for the Flash--episodes focused on decidedly human villains, like corrupt officials ("Watching the Detectives") and mobsters (Michael Nader played ex-cop turned hood Nicholas Pike in two episodes, including the pilot), and didn't pull in the comic's excellent "rogues' gallery" until the end of the season, when the Trickster (Mark Hamill, who appears in two episodes), Captain Cold (Michael Champion), Mirror Master (David Cassidy!), and a sort-of Reverse-Flash (in the episode "Twin Streaks") made appearances. Sadly, these appearances were too little, too late for the series, which struggled with a high per-episode price tag and a fluctuating time slot (as well as frequent breaking coverage of the Gulf War). But for the Flash faithful, the six-disc set compiles its entire 21-episode run, including the 90-minute pilot. Unfortunately, no extras are included.
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Thanks to Lycosidae for the rips n releasing them
Added link to Discussion Thread - Pg9
McAlly wrote:On request (and advice from Pg9)
Here are the unverified links dvd release with dual audio italian/english
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Once verified I (or someone else) will put them in the release thread (with english titles)
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Monthly Market Monitor: January 2014 Recap
U.S. equities slumped last month sending the S&P 500 lower for its first monthly pullback since August. Stocks retreated from year-end record highs as concerns over Chinese growth and reduced Federal Reserve stimulus caused angst in emerging market currencies, pressuring emerging market stocks. A mixed bag of corporate profit and revenue reports during the first part of the fourth quarter earnings season also weighed on sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 878 points (-5.2%) in January, its largest percentage loss since May 2012 and worst point pullback since February 2009. Comparatively, the NASDAQ Composite declined the least, falling 1.7%. Overall, global equity valuations declined by approximately $1.8 trillion in January. Smaller-capitalized stocks declined less than large-caps as the Russell 2000, a proxy for small-cap equities, fell by 2.8% in January. Mid-cap stocks, as measured by the Russell Mid Cap Index, declined 2% during the month. Growth stocks again edged out value as the Russell 1000 Growth Index lost 2.9%, while the Russell 1000 Value Index retreated 3.6%. Commodities, as measured by the S&P GSCI Index, continued a downward trend, falling 1.6% in January. Amid fears of a slowdown in China, copper prices slumped 3.9% in January, ending the month down with eight consecutive session losses, its longest losing streak since December 1998. On the other hand, gold rose 3.1% on the month. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures fell 0.9% last month, while frigid temperatures throughout the U.S. caused natural gas futures to spike 17% in January, the biggest one month gain since September 2012. Eight of the ten sector groups ended negative, losing 2.5% or more. Energy (-6.3%), Consumer Discretionary (-5.9%) and Consumer Staples (-5.1%) fell the most, while Utilities (+3%) and Healthcare (+0.9%), both defensive sectors, outperformed. On an industry (sub-sector) basis, Appliances (-15%), Specialty Retail (-14.8%) and Metals & Mining (-14.1%) fell the most, while Aluminum (+8.3%), Gas Utilities (+7.4%) and Biotech (+5%) gained the most. Overseas developed markets lost more than the U.S. as the MSCI EAFE Index declined by 4%. Emerging markets, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, sank 6.5% in January, extending losses into a third month. China's PMI Manufacturing Index slumped to a six-month low in January, which may pressure an already reduced Chinese GDP growth forecast lower. Growth is forecast to expand by 7.4% this year, China's slowest growth pace since 1990. Bonds outperformed stocks for the first time since last August as global fixed-income securities had their best January performance since 2008. Treasuries, as measured by the Barclays U.S. Government Bond Index, rallied in January, returning 1.3%. The yield on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury notes fell nearly 40 basis points to 2.64%, its lowest level since November. U.S. investment grade bonds, as measured by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, returned 1.5% last month. The Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index, a proxy for non-investment grade corporate bonds, returned 0.7%. Municipal bonds, as measured by the Barclays Municipals Index, outperformed Treasuries and corporates last month, returning nearly 2%.
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Johnson: Kings sale signed
Sacramento, CA – Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson held a press conference Friday to announce the deal to keep the Kings in the city has been completed.
The Maloof family has sold the franchise to an investment group headed by Vivek Ranadive for a reported $347 million. There was a competing bid from a group that would have moved the club to Seattle, but NBA owners earlier this week voted to keep the team in Sacramento.
A new stadium deal, something the Maloof family worked unsuccessfully to complete, is part of the overall package.
"It's about jobs and it's about revitalizing downtown," said Johnson in front of a large group of fans that packed at City Hall on Friday. "It's about civic pride. It's about not letting somebody take something that isn't theirs."
Johnson, a former NBA player, worked tirelessly to keep the Kings in Sacramento after repeated efforts for a new stadium plan with the Maloof family continually fell apart.
The Maloof family had agreed in January to sell a 65 percent share of the team to a group led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who would have moved the Kings to Seattle.
On March 27, the Sacramento City Council approved a public-private deal to build a new 18,500-seat arena and retail center downtown, leading to the purchase bid from Ranadive's group.
The league heard proposals from both groups in April and decided Wednesday, by a 22-8 vote, to keep the team in Sacramento. The actual sale agreement must still be approved by the NBA's Board of Governors.
Ranadive, a partial owner of the Golden State Warriors, will have to divest his interest in the franchise.
The Maloof family had controlling ownership of the Kings since 1999.
Seattle has been without an NBA team since the SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City following the 2007-08 campaign. The Sonics were an expansion franchise in 1967-68.
The Kings, meanwhile, have been in numerous cities since their inception in 1948-49. They began as the Rochester Royals until 1956-57, then stopped in Cincinnati through 1971-72 before moving to the Midwest. They changed their name to the KC-Omaha Kings before becoming the Kansas City Kings in 1975-76, then moved to Sacramento for the start of the 1985-86 season.


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The Beloved
Time Out says
After several acclaimed political productions, Palestinian theatre company ShiberHur is back in London with a domestic retelling of the story of Abraham and Isaac. It is a disappointing return.
In the past, writer and director Amir Nizar Zuabi's surreal lyricism has illuminated social injustice. Now, 'The Beloved's personal focus feels like navel-gazing, while its New Age spiritualism is frankly befuddling.
Asked by God to sacrifice his son, Abraham takes Isaac to the top of a mountain and binds him, only to be stopped at the last moment by his maker, having proved his loyalty. The story is found in both Judaism and Islam, which could have offered an opportunity to examine the Palestinian/Israeli conflict or at least explore a shared heritage from different contemporary viewpoints. But Zuabi has stripped the tale of its original religious or social meaning and therefore much of its power.
At points his imagery is beautiful, but poetry alone fails to impart any solid meaning to what becomes simply a thin family melodrama, in which God is replaced by a chorus of talking sheep.


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Another Small Quake Rattles SE Missouri
ST. LOUIS - For the second time this week, residents in southeast Missouri felt the rumble of a small earthquake. But an expert says it's nothing to worry about -- small quakes strike in the New Madrid seismic zone roughly 200 times a year.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the latest earthquake was centered near Caruthersville in the Missouri Bootheel, a magnitude 2.7 quake that struck at 7:27 p.m. Thursday. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Two days earlier, another 2.7-magnitude quake was centered near Portageville, Missouri.
Steve Horton of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis says the New Madrid seismic zone remains very active with small quakes. The New Madrid Fault Line was the location for massive quakes in 1811 and 1812.


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered an Oval Office rebuke Wednesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin with Ukraine's new prime minister at his side, warning that the U.S. and the international community would be "forced to apply a cost" should Russia refuse to withdraw from Crimea.
"There's another path available and we hope that President Putin is willing to seize that path," Obama told reporters as he sat next to newly installed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. "But if he does not, I am very confident that the international community will stand strongly behind the Ukrainian government in preserving its unity and its territorial integrity."
Obama said the Ukrainian government is willing to talk with Russia and engage in a process that he said "could lead to different arrangements over time" for the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
"But, that's not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun pointed at you," he said.
The high-stakes meeting comes five days before a controversial Russia-backed referendum in Crimea on leaving Ukraine and joining Russia is to be held. The State Department announced that Secretary of State John Kerry will head to London for a meeting Friday with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The hastily called summit — after Kerry refused Lavrov's invitation to Moscow earlier this week — appears to be an eleventh-hour attempt to get Putin to accept the White House's offer of an "off-ramp" to ditch the secession referendum and open talks with the Ukrainians.
Obama expressed hope that Kerry's mission to London would work out, though he did not seem especially optimistic.
"But we'll keep on pressing," the president said, adding that he and the international community "completely reject" what he called a "slapdash" election.
Yatsenyuk, a former opposition leader who just two weeks ago was elected prime minister, sat in a wing chair to Obama's right and spoke resolutely.
"My country feels that the United States stands by the Ukrainian people," he said in fluent English. "Mr. President, it's all about freedom. We fight for our freedom, we fight for our independence, we fight for our sovereignty and we will never surrender."
Yatsenyuk later spoke to an overflow crowd at the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy institute, thanking the United States and the European Union for responding to the crisis "with one voice." He said Ukraine still considers Russia a partner and wants to get back to real bilateral relations, but it can't with tanks and troops present as part of an "incursion."
"If it's about Crimea, we as a Ukrainian government are ready to start a national dialogue to increase the rights of autonomous republic of Crimea, starting with taxes and ending with other aspects, like language issues," he said. "We're ready to start this dialogue — but the constitutional one, in the Ukrainian Parliament, having everyone sitting at the table."
The referendum Sunday, he warned, could be Putin's door to a wider foray, perhaps even to a seizure of all of Ukraine. Though he vowed Ukrainians would never surrender, he added that Western financial and political support would be crucial to thwarting Putin. Yatsenyuk spoke with tempered optimism, stressing that he understood the difficulties of the effort needed to sway a defiant Moscow.
"This is the dramatic lesson for all of us: We need to articulate a real response to this kind of situation," the Ukrainian leader said. "Let's be frank. There is no clear-cut response. We are trying to find a way out."
Yatsenyuk said Ukraine was ready for presidential elections May 25.
Ahead of the meeting at the White House, the leaders of the world's seven most-industrialized nations — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom — issued a stern warning, urging Russia to cancel the referendum and saying that they won't recognize the results.
"Any such referendum would have no legal effect," the leaders said in a statement. "Given the lack of adequate preparation and the intimidating presence of Russian troops, it would also be a deeply flawed process which would have no moral force. For all these reason we would not recognize the outcome."
Neither the visit by Yatsenyuk nor the statement by the seven nations is likely to change Putin's mind, but it's critical for the U.S., said James Goldgeier, who has worked for the White House National Security Council and is the dean of the School of International Service at American University.
"Putin's calculations are unlikely to be affected by what we are doing, but given what he's done, violating every international norm out there, it's important for the U.S. and its partners to stand up and say this is not acceptable," he said.
If the referendum goes forward, Goldgeier said he expects new sanctions to be announced Monday as the U.S. seeks to isolate Russia.
"All those things … we should do, but it doesn't mean it's going to change the future of Crimea," he said.
Obama thanked Yatsenyuk for the Ukrainians' "courage" and called on Congress to "act promptly" on an aid package that includes a $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the legislation on Wednesday, sending it to the full Senate for a vote. Similar legislation cleared the House on Tuesday. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said it was "only a start on fulfilling our commitment to provide the president as many tools as needed to keep President Putin in check and protect the sovereignty of Russia's neighbors."
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Over the past several months a couple of us, cemetery hunters, were looking for an old, local family burial ground. The Colver Family Burial Ground located on Schooleys Mountain, Morris County, New Jersey USA. Information about this family burial ground can be found on the Find-A-Grave website. The details that we knew were on the website so we knew where is should have been found.
A 1971 note indicated that the property had a new home under construction. So, we really had a pretty good idea where it was. However, what was not in the information we had, was the fact that the older house, next door, was owned by a member of the Colver family. Or so the story goes.
Earlier a couple of us met with the owner of the older house. What a wonder hostess. Let us snoop briefly around this old house. She took us around her property, and made a comment about one piece of her property where she felt very peaceful. (hold that thought, I told her)
We walked through the woods, but based on some information from someone who had sent an email about this burial ground, we knew there should be a headstone somewhere. We had some pictures taken from the are of the new house. Not confirmed yet, but the new house was probably part of the older house owners property. Some old plot maps pretty much confirmed that.
We did stumble on what might have been an old headstone, but weren't sure. Since the neighbors weren't home, we didn't want to spend time on that property.
Vowing to return "later this summer" we went our own ways to do some more research. In an old map, there were several burial grounds in the area. One of which I have blogged about earlier. But there wasn't any markings on this property.
Today, two different township Historical Society presidents, and Random Acts Of Genealogy Kindness volunteer, and I met. Two of them were the ones who made the earlier visit with the pictures we saw on our first visit. They KNEW where they last saw the one headstone that remained.
According to Find-A-Grave there were 15 people buried there, but a note from 1938 indicated that there were 9 gravestones found.
A quick aside, this area about 20 years ago, had problems with well water. There wasn't enough left "on the mountain" to support new housing. No one could find water, or enough water. They had even called in people who used Divining Rods to find water. No luck.
After I told our expanded group of headstone "hunters" about the peaceful feeling the property owner had, we went to the area she mentioned. The area was nicely mowed. One of our group said that she would join us in a moment. She had to get "something" out of her car. We already had a number of camera, so that wasn't it.
She brought two Divining Rods with her. She has had experience in using them in identifying burial's in cemeteries.
So, she starts her walk down the center of this small plot of ground with the rods parallel to the ground and parallel to each other, point toward to back end of this plot.
Probably 10 feed in, the rods started to cross each other.
As she moved forward that actually crossed.
As see move toward that back of this mowed plot, they crossed 3 more times. Whoa.
She continued up one side of this plot and in the exact same spot, probably 10 feet from her first pass, the rods crossed 3 more times. So, we had 4 sets of events where the rods identified 'something'.
Each of us, in tern, including the property owner, walked the area and had the same experience in the same place. We had the property owner walk up the other side of the mowed area. Guess what, same 4 spots the rods crossed. I must admit, that I had to try this out. First time I have ever touched them, but followed the "how to" instructions, those rods moved.
We will probably never know for sure, what is under the ground, but to have 12 spots, in a 3 by 4 grid certainly leaves some questions about what is going on under the ground. But, for now, I will leave it as Sacred Ground.
Is this the Family Burial Ground? Or could it be a Leni Lenope Burial ground which was also in the area.
Now back to the search for that headstone.
Since we had the photographer who took the earlier pictures, we went to where we saw a stone earlier. He confirmed that we found was not what he had found 5 years earlier.
He had talked to the owner of the "new" house property owner, and he had move the headstone so that his kids would play in the yard, didn't want them to get hurt.
Following our guide, we found the old headstone.
This photo was taken with a cell phone, but others "in the gang" took better photos. We are trying to determine which of the 15 names listed in Find-A-Grave, this headstone might be for. The listing in Find-A-Grave came from, the best the we can tell, a group in Morris County who had done inventories in many other local cemeteries in the early 1900's.
Through photo editing, we should be able to pull the text from the stone and will post in on Find-A-Gave.
Can honestly say that this was a first for me, and wanted to share it here.
Many thanks to my colleagues on this journey.
Since I didn't get their permission to post their names on my blog, I'll just leave them as friends and colleagues.
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Boston, MA – After an absence of more than four playoff contests, defenseman Dennis Seidenberg was back in the lineup for the Boston Bruins for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Saturday.
Seidenberg had been lost with an unspecified lower-body injury since the early stages in Game 7 of the Eastern quarterfinals against Toronto, an eventual 5-4 overtime victory which allowed the Bruins to advance.
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Long night (I entered my last post at 5 a.m.) – late start this morning. I'll need a couple of days to fully digest the numbers coming out of last night's events (and to catch up on sleep). So for this morning let me just begin the post-election analysis with a few observations.
As most of you know, I take a bit of pride in not getting emotionally invested in any candidate, in order to analyze elections (and the presidency more generally) as objectively as possible. This sometimes drives my students (and readers of this blog) nutty, because they want me to post comments that reaffirm their gut feelings regarding which candidate is better, why their opponent is scum, etc. By now, I hope you've developed a bit of a grudging respect for my perspective, even if you don't agree with it.
However, this doesn't mean I'm dispassionate about the presidency, or about elections. It will be said over and over again in the coming days, and much more eloquently than I can say it. But I'll say it anyway.
We, as Americans, should take pride in what happened last night. First, we affirmed an ideal that for far too long in this country has been more often talked about than acted upon: that the only qualifications one needs under the Constitution to become president are the ones related to age, citizenship and residency (subject to term limits). Last night we took a step closer to realizing that ideal. We aren't all the way there, of course, but it was a huge symbolic victory.
Second, and more important I would suggest, is that we once again transferred power from one party to the other without threat of coup, bloodshed, intimidation, vote stealing (well, ok, my guess is that there was not a little vote stealing going on). We take this for granted now. But it's not the norm across the world, and it has not even always been the norm in our country (although we have a pretty decent track record dating back to 1800.)
Democracy, American-style, is an on-going experiment. We did pretty well last night.
Ok. Now on to the important things: how well did our forecast models work? Pretty darn well. I'll address that, and related election issues, in the next post.
PS. I know that some of you had trouble logging in to post on the live blog last night. None of the tech people were able to explain what happened. I'm very sorry you weren't able to participate, but I do hope you were at least able to read the exchange. Lots of great comments – Andy outlasted me, and was still posting excellent updates at 4 in the morning – I finally had to tell him to go to bed at 5 am. I'm sorry that I couldn't provide the more detailed election night analysis of exit polls that you've become accustomed to, but my effort to do simultaneous election night commentary at the college and the online blogging meant that I didn't do either particularly well! A lesson for next time…
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NBA will be starting on Christmas Day this year, so here's to getting another fantasy basketball league started.
Returning managers from last year will have priority sign ups and have already been sent invitation emails (so be sure to check the email you used for the league last year). Once you have accepted your invitation, please confirm your participation by posting in this thread.
Others interested may still sign up and post on this thread as after the returning managers, sign ups for this competition will be based on a first-post, first-serve basis. The first 12 people to sign up will be guaranteed a spot as a participant. There will be a waiting list for those signing up after the first 12. If there are enough people for a second league, that will be arranged as well.
To sign up, please leave your username, your timezone, and your preferred date and time of drafting.
Sign up Example
Username: Dav
Timezone: PST (GMT-8:00)
Preferred Draft Date and Time: Weekdays / 11:11pm
Note to all: After you have been sent an invite for the league, please confirm your participation by replying in this thread and posting your Team Name from which we will be able to recognize you.
Let the season begin!
1. Dav - For Love (GMT-8:00)
2. khaotic - Mudkips (GMT-5:00)
3. Aoes - Dime Patrol (GMT-8:00)
4. shinobi - shinobi_BEST_CHA_CHA (GMT-5:00)
5. Physica - Physica Chino (GMT+2:00)
6. qazqazqaz8 - K&F (GMT-8:00)
7. burpyierz - Rose MVP (GMT+1:00)
8. psyduck215 - Romance 3 Kingdoms (GMT-5:00)
9. imket - imket (GMT+10:00)
10. aiyaya - da bRICKS (GMT-5:00)
11. Team Disease ??
12. Baller ??
Date: TBD
Time: TBD, however, the latest time offered by Yahoo! is 8:45PM PST (For reference, last year's draft was 8:00PM PST)
Note #1: Draft date and time listed on Yahoo! (12/10/11 @ 8:00PM PST) was just a mandatory process to create the league. It serves as only a possible date and time for the live online draft.
Note #2: If you cannot make it for the Live Online draft, you will be automatically enrolled in the Autopick draft where players will be drafted based on Yahoo! default rankings or your own pre-ranking of players.
League Settings
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Playoffs: Week 22, 23, 24 (6 Teams)
League Start Week: TBD
Roster Changes: Daily - Today
Note: With the new addition to Yahoo! fantasy basketball, players are now allowed to update their rosters and see the change on the day of the update.
Positions and Roster Size
Point Guard (PG) -- 1
Shooting Guard (SG) -- 1
Guard (G) -- 1
Small Forward (SF) -- 1
Power Forward (PF) -- 1
Forward (F) -- 1
Center (C) -- 1
Utility (Util) -- 3
Bench (BN) -- 3
Stat Categories - Standard 9 Cat
1. Field Goal Percentage
2. Free Throw Percentage
3. 3-Point Shots Made
4. Points Scored
5. Total Rebounds
6. Assists
7. Steals
8. Blocked Shots
9. Turnovers
Note: If you would like to see the inclusion of more categories, please suggest so via this thread at which point, a vote will be taken; majority will rule.
Again, to sign up, please leave your username, your timezone, and your preferred date and time of drafting.


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c.1300, bapteme, from Old French batesme, bapteme (11c., Modern French baptême), from Latin baptismus, from Greek baptismos, noun of action from baptizein (see baptize). The -s- restored in later 14c.
Figurative sense is from late 14c. The Anglo-Saxons used fulluht in this sense (John the Baptist was Iohannes se Fulluhtere). Phrase baptism of fire "a soldier's first experience of battle" (1857) translates French baptême de feu; the phrase originally was ecclesiastical Greek baptisma pyros and meant "the grace of the Holy Spirit as imparted through baptism." Later it was used of martyrdom, especially by burning.
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The ceremony of initiation into Christianity; in most Christian churches, it is considered a sacrament. Persons baptized either have water poured on them or are immersed in water; some groups of Christians (see also Christian) insist on immersion. The effect of baptism, in Christian belief, is to cleanse persons of their sins, so that they are born into a new life with Jesus. Most churches baptize members when they are infants, but some groups, like the Baptists, insist on adult baptism. Jesus himself was baptized. (See John the Baptist.)


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Raiders owner Mark Davis, accepting the Tank Younger Award on behalf of his late father Friday night, talked to the NFL Network about organizational change.
Under his father, the Raiders have been referred to as a "mom and pop" organization in a league that has become corporate. Without being specific, Davis said the Raiders are going to be more modern.
"The business part really wasn't there. It was all football. Just win," Davis said. "Over the years, it just grew and grew and grew, and I think the size of the league and the size of the organization and the different things you had to deal with, media and all those things, kind of dwarfed the capabilities of the organization. Instead of a clean start with the organization, there's been a lot of plugging holes."
Davis has entrusted the football side of the operation to Reggie McKenzie, saying, "I have the utmost confidence he can do it."
The Tank Younger Award is presented on behalf of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which promotes diversity in all areas of a football organization.
"He wouldn't have accepted this award because he hired great people for jobs, and that's just how he felt," Davis said. "He wasn't doing it for awards. That's the truth."
Both McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen have talked about how the Raiders intend to scout and identify players, getting away from the height-weight-speed prototype that Al Davis favored and putting a heavier emphasis on film study and football skill.


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Supreme Court grants victory to President Obama, upholding constitutionality of 2010 health care law
WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court today handed President Obama a major victory by upholding the sweeping 2010 healthcare law, declaring that Obama and Congress acted within their powers in requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance.
The ruling reaffirms the most ambitious and controversial undertaking of Obama's first term: attempting to guarantee that most of the 45 million Americans without insurance will get better access to medical care. Demonstrators supporting the healthcare law exploded in cheers outside the Supreme Court as news of the ruling emerged.
The justices ruled 5-to-4 that Congress acted within its authority to impose an "individual mandate'' by using its taxing powers to fashion the enforcement side of the requirement. Under the law, individuals who fail to obtain insurance will be required to pay a tax penalty. The requirement begins in 2014.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., an appointee of former President George W. Bush who often has sided with the conservatives on the court in close cases, sided with the more liberal wing this time and proved to be the decisive vote.
There is some irony in the turn of events. As a US senator in 2005, Obama voted against Roberts's confirmation. Now Roberts has handed Obama one of the biggest victories of his political life.
Within two hours after the decision was announced, Obama entered the East Room with a group of White House officials including Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services and praised the court for reaffirming a fundamental American principle – "no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin.''
He ticked off the popular consumer protections that Americans will continue to enjoy thanks to the court's ruling. And for the first time in recent weeks, Obama addressed the controversial individual mandate upheld by the court, making the case that when the uninsured show up in emergency rooms for care or when those who could afford insurance wait until they are sick to buy coverage, everyone else ends up footing the bill in terms of higher premiums.
"That's why, even though I knew it wouldn't be politically popular, and resisted the idea when I ran for this office, we ultimately included a provision in the Affordable Care Act that people who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility to do so,'' said Obama, emphasizing that Mitt Romney, too, supported the idea and included it in the Massachusetts reform law when he was governor.
Now that the highest court in the land has spoken, Obama said, "what the country can't afford to do is refight the political battles of two years ago, or go back to the way things were.''
"With today's announcement, it's time for us to move forward,'' he said, "to implement and, where necessary, improve on this law.''
Romney also responded quickly. "What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States,'' he said. "What the court did today was say that ObamaCare does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say that ObamaCare is a good law or that it's good policy.''
Romney went on to slam the health care law for adding to the national debt, making it more difficult for business to hire, and allowing the federal government to intrude on the health care choices of individuals.
"Our mission is clear,'' Romney said. "If we want to get rid of ObamaCare, we're going to have to replace President Obama. My mission is to make sure we do exactly that.''
By maintaining the status quo, the Supreme Court has given Republicans in Congress a fresh rallying point, as they have vowed to continue their fight to legislatively repeal the sweeping law. But with the conservative-leaning court affirming the government's power to intervene aggressively in the national healthcare market, the GOP faces a difficult path.
Obama and his Democratic allies have said they will continue seeking to persuade voters of the virtues of the law during the election season, including popular provisions that bar insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and that require insurers to cover children in family plans until they are 26 years old. The law also includes a massive expansion of the federal Medicaid program, which is expected to add 17 million new people to government-sponsored coverage by 2016, also remains intact.
The victory for Obama and Democrats bucked conventional wisdom and proved the futility of attempting to predict how the Supreme Court will act when fundamental and unprecedented questions about the power of federal government are on the line. Most analysts had anticipated a high-court setback based on the tone of questions during oral arguments and a recent conservative tilt of the court.
Stephen Ryan, head of the government strategies group in the Washington-based law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, said Chief Justice Roberts saved the court from being seen as a politicized body, with a potential trifecta of partisan decisions given decisions in the past 12 years on Bush v. Gore, determining who won the 2000 presidential race, and Citizens United on unlimited political spending by corporations.
"This is the move of a great pol,'' Ryan said. "He in effect has taken his branch of government out of being seen as having dumped something ugly in the punch bowl.''
The Obama administration has been criticized for not effectively selling the law's benefits since it passed in 2010.
"The president has one last opportunity to sell this law to the American public today, which he has never done,'' Ryan said. "His presidency might ride on his ability to convince people that his policy actually makes sense but they just didn't know enough about it.''
The president fulfilled a longstanding goal of the Democratic Party in 2010 when he pushed through the most sweeping expansion of health care coverage since the federal government established the Medicare insurance program for the elderly in the 1960s. The law included a vast expansion of the federal Medicaid program to include millions of new beneficiaries and set up an array of cost-savings and reforms in federal healthcare programs. Modeled on the landmark healthcare plan passed by former Governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, the federal law also calls upon states to establish healthcare exchanges where low-cost and subsidized plans would be offered.
But the political costs were extremely high to both the president and Democrats in Congress. The vastly expanded role of the government in the healthcare market spawned a conservative backlash that spawned the Tea Party movement and helped Republicans win back the House from Democratic control in the 2010 mid-term elections.
Democrats lost 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats that year.
"The long rows of Democratic political dead can rest in peace today that they didn't die in vain,'' Ryan said. Had the ruling struck down all or parts of the law, "the president would have had a real problem dealing with Democratic members watching their colleagues lay down their seats for nothing.''
The negative reaction in 2010 also helped Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown seize the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who spent most of his career advocating for better health care coverage and was a crucial backer of the Obama effort until his death in August 2009.
Polls have shown Americans never fully understood or supported the benefits or costs of the complex law; a narrow majority continues to favor its total repeal. Even Obama has not campaigned aggressively on its passage in his 2012 re-election bid.
Suitably for a historic case, the justices said in their opinions that it turned on basic questions of federal power, the role of Congress and the court, and the checks and balances of the American system of government. Roberts, writing for the majority, began with a civics lesson about judicial restraint.
"We do not consider whether the [health care] act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the nation's elected leaders,'' said the court. "We ask only whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to enact the challenged provisions.'' And the court, it said, found that Congress did act within its power.
But the four dissenting justices – Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas — strongly disputed the majority's reasoning. They said the court, by allowing the government to compel certain behavior (obtaining insurance), was authorizing an expansion of federal power without precedent. They said the entire law should have been thrown out.
"The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying nonconsenting states all Medicaid funding,'' the dissenting opinion said. "These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act's other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative.''
Medicaid is paid for by both the federal government and states and is administered by states. The dissenting justices said such coercion was an undue exercise of federal authority over states.
"The values that should have determined our course today are caution, minimalism, and the understanding that the federal government is one of limited powers. But the court's ruling undermines those values at every turn,'' said the dissenters. "In the name of restraint, it overreaches. In the name of constitutional avoidance, it creates new constitutional questions. In the name of cooperative federalism, it undermines state sovereignty.''
The majority rejected the government's argument that the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution allows Congress to force consumers to take action. It said that would have been an excessive expansion of raw federal power that is not permitted by the Constitution. Instead, it upheld the individual mandate based on another argument the Obama administration presented: the taxing powers of Congress. People who do not buy insurance under the mandate are subject to a penalty, payable to the IRS, which is not a novel concept.
"… Taxes that seek to influence conduct are nothing new,'' said the court, citing, for example, trade tariffs and sin taxes on things like cigarettes, marijuana, and sawed-off shotguns. Under this logic, the key is that the consumer has the option of buying insurance or paying the penalty. The compulsory nature of the mandate is mitigated. The court noted that the government has estimated 4 million people will not buy insurance and instead pay the penalty – which will range from $60 a month for someone with an income of $35,000 to $200 a month for someone making $100,000.
"That Congress apparently regards such extensive failure to comply with the mandate as tolerable suggests that Congress did not think it was creating four million outlaws,'' the court said.
The most contentious aspect of the 2010 law is the "individual mandate.'' Requiring that most Americans obtain insurance is a critical tradeoff in barring insurance companies from denying benefits for pre-existing conditions and imposing other limits on coverage.
Without forcing healthy people to buy insurance and pay into the pot, not enough premiums will flow into an insurance plan to cover everyone who gets sick. In anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling, insurance companies in recent weeks have been scrambling to explain why they need this provision if they are going to be required to cover all comers, regardless of their medical history or condition.
Without the mandate, individual insurance premiums would rise to the point of becoming prohibitively expensive, and tens of millions more people would remain uninsured – the very problem the law was meant to address, analysts said.
Conservatives simultaneously claimed victory and defeat on Thursday.
The fact that the individual mandate was upheld not on the basis of the commerce clause was a victory for the Constitution, said Dean Clancy, legislative counsel and vice president of health care policy for FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group. The narrowly tailored opinion creates no precedent expanding Congress' commerce power.
"We're thrilled that federal power has been limited under the commerce clause, but we are baffled how a law that violates the Constitution is nevertheless permissible under the taxing power,'' Clancy said. "It's now in the hands of the American people to make the 2012 election a referendum on the full repeal of ObamaCare.''
Clancy also accused Obama and congressional Democrats of perpetrating a "major fraud'' on the American people by repeatedly insisting in 2010 that the law was not a tax, only to have the court uphold the law precisely as a tax.
"We're mystified by the court's logic and outraged by its onstitutional acrobatics,'' Clancy said.
Tom Barker, former acting general counsel at the US Department of Health and Human Services, praised the "brilliant'' way Roberts narrowed the scope of the ruling.
"What he has done was to stop the encroachment of Congress using the commerce clause to enact social welfare legislation,'' said Barker, now a partner at Boston-based Foley Hoag.
On Justice Scalia's concern during oral arguments about whether the federal government has the power to force everyone to eat broccoli, Barker said today's ruling means that while the government cannot force people to eat broccoli, "in theory, you can impose a tax on people who don't eat broccoli and it would be upheld.''
Dr. Don Berwick, former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who oversaw the rollout of the law in its early stages, hailed the court decision as "majestic.''
"It's America moving at last towards health care as a human right,'' said Berwick, a former Harvard School of Public Health professor who lead the Cambridge-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement. "I hope now we can put aside not just the uncertainty but the grenades, and come together as a country to make the law work.''
Berwick acknowledged however that the political season ahead will create continued uncertainty around health reform.
"There is a big communication job to do, and I know the administration is committed to that,'' he said. "Health care is a complex area and explaining it in a way that people can grasp is an important job to do.''
Now that benefits of the law are starting to kick in, Berwick said he believes more and more Americans will come to embrace it. The biggest challenge now is to set up the health care exchanges and changing the way health care is delivered to inspire more collaboration between doctors, hospitals and home care and rein in costs.
Berwick, along with many other attorneys and health analysts, said he was surprised that the court basically made the law's Medicaid expansion provision optional by ruling it unconstitutional for the government to withdraw all federal Medicaid dollars from states that don't comply. States that choose not to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income people would now only lose new funds tied to expansion. The ruling could very well slow the expansion of health insurance to the uninsured.
"They pulled a few teeth in terms of the degree in which the law can assure Medicaid expansion at the state level,'' Berwick said. "That is basically going to confront the states with a choice: do you want to leave people uncovered or take advantage of federal dollars? I would suspect most states are going to come to their senses and not leave poor people high and dry.''
Nationally, the sweeping health reform law is supposed to expand coverage to 30 million people who are currently uninsured by 2016, through a combination of employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid expansion, private individual plans, and insurance exchanges. It is unclear how many would ultimately be covered without the mandate to buy insurance or pay a penalty starting in 2014.


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A quick YouTube search will pull up countless video reenactments of this Beastie Boys jam by suburban bros. It's an anthem for losers—a hip hop relic realized with the brute force of cock rock. Thank Rick Rubin.
You could probably write a tome about the Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill, Def Jam Records and how Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons changed music forever. (In fact, someone kind of just did that.) But here's a song that pretty much encapsulates it all. Musically it was and continues to be a total heresy. White dudes and hip hop was as problematic a combination then as rap/rock is today. Still, you've heard this song a million times on the radio, at your prom, on MTV, on your iPod, and now on a gadget blog. Frat boys and nerds alike can't get enough. Why? Because it rocks! Because it says something bigger about how young people feel without taking itself remotely seriously. It's as fun as it is poignent. You can pretend to hate it—that it's a tired old gaucherie from a bygone year—you know where the Beasties would tell you to stick it? [Amazon, iTunes, Spotify]


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Friday, March 9, 2007
Sarcastic FizzBuzz
I caved in, despite my instincts, and coded an implementation of FizzBuzz.
It's kind of sarcastic. Here's the code as a text file.
I hate to admit it, but coding this was kind of fun. I got the idea from a comment I made. I was kidding in the comment, but then I thought, it'd be so easy, why not.
It's kind of intended as a joke, the implementation being worthy of the problem in an ironic sense. I think it'd probably be entertaining to have a contest to cook up the least advisable, most foolish, most overblown, most heinously wrong implementation of FizzBuzz possible. This would be a good entry, although not necessarily a winning entry. Altering Fixnum can mess with your maintainability in scary ways, but it could probably be even worse if it were done in Java by executing Unix processes and capturing the output. Especially if the Unix processes used python -e as a calculator, and used Python's explicit relative pathname on a particular box.
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I think it'd probably be entertaining to have a contest to cook up the least advisable, most foolish, most overblown, most heinously wrong implementation of FizzBuzz possible.ReplyDelete
This reminds me of a quote by Guy Steele: "It's dangerous to make jokes about programming languages: almost every parody feature you can think of has already been tried out seriously."
Here's a serious attempt at Fizzbuzz. There are approximately four hundred lines in the solution.
By way of explanation, the author feels this it is important to demonstrate as much of the candidate's experience with business programming in one go.
This is obviously at complete odds with my perspective that he only purpose of that particular question is to demonstrate that the candidate can actually program.
I just discovered that in your feed. (And heinously overreacted.)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2007 at 3:42:00 PM PDT
Couldn't you replace the first test with mod 15 instead?ReplyDelete
Yeah, somehow people get trained on methodology with toy examples, and thusly are unable to not use them in places where they are simply too simple.ReplyDelete
By the way: how about 'puts "1 2 fizz 4 buzz fizz 7 8 fizz buzz 11 fizz 13 14 buzzfizz ..."'?


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If you're blind and living in Iowa, you can't get a driver's license -- but you might be able to get a gun.
An interesting report in the Des Moines Register over the weekend delved into an unusual gray area in the state's gun policies, which have allowed some blind residents to get concealed-carry permits.
Under state law, Iowans must file applications with their local sheriff's department to get licenses for acquiring handguns and for carrying weapons in public.
The permit to carry weapons requires a handgun-training course -- which can be completed online, the Register reports, allowing blind Iowans leeway to legally carry without passing a shooting test.
Compare that with Iowa's rules on driving, which require passing a vision test or submitting a vision report from a physician or optometrist to get a driver's license.
It's not really clear how many blind Iowans have guns, because officials keep no such records.
"It seems a little strange, but the way the law reads, we can't deny them [a permit] just based on that one thing," Sgt. Jana Abens, a spokeswoman for the Polk County sheriff's office, told the Register.
A debate has ensued over the balance between liberty for all discrimination and public safety. You can read more about it here.
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