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Last weekend the stars all aligned perfectly. We had great weather, a day off, and nothing but time on our hands to explore. I got a little giddy when I checked the weather and saw low 60's and sunny but didn't want to get my hopes up since the weather is pretty unpredictable, or the forecasters suck…one or the other. Either way, there have been many bubbles burst in the Fein household when it comes to weather but lo and behold, it was a beautiful weekend. We decided on 1 thing, whatever we did, we would end up in Ventimiglia Italy for dinner at our favorite place, Pasta e Basta. So with the French Riviera our oyster, we headed out with a semi-plan of driving up the coast all the way to Italy (which sounds so far but is only around 40 miles). But this time we would do something different, we wouldn't take the highway which cuts inland, we would take our time and take 1 of the 3 Corniches along the coast the entire way and stop if and when we felt like it. Now let's back track a bit and describe the 3 Corniches. Each is a coastal road all at different altitudes running from Nice to Menton (the last French town before the Italian border), with the lowest being The Basse Corniche, then the Moyenne and last but not least, the highest/white knuckled drive being the Grande Corniche. Each has spectacular views that many consider to be some of the best in the world and I wholeheartedly agree and each has their perks. If you wish to visit all the seaside resorts on the way, then the Basse is the one for you. But if you would like to teeter on the top of the mountain and have a view of the Mediterranean on one side and a view of the snow capped French Alps on the other, then it's Grande all the way. Since we wanted to be able to stop and enjoy a more leisurely drive and had already done the Moyenne, we chose the Basse since both the others are a little more of a 'keep your eyes on the road and hands at 10 and 2' drive, which I don't find relaxing even though I wouldn't be the one driving. We made the mistake of letting our 'cravings' get the better of us and stopped in Nice for a Philly Cheese steak which itself wasn't the bad idea, but more the fact that the Carnival is going in Nice so traffic sucked. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as we thought and were in and out in no time with full stomachs ready for the drive. We stopped in a few villages on the way, (Villefranche-sur-Mer, Eze, St. Jean Cap Ferrat) to take some pictures and have a few drinks. We rolled the windows down, turned the radio up and belted out tunes, which I'm sure humored Shaun's teammate that was in the back seat. Hell, I did notice a few cats running after our car so he must of been singing in the backseat too. We took a detour and weaved in and out of Cap Ferrat and could not believe the houses that had the most beautiful un-obstructed views of the sea. (After we got back, I googled it and saw that in '12 Cap Ferrat was the 2nd most expensive residential location in the world behind….Monaco, which is just a few miles down the road). It's so crazy that these little villages are sometimes over-looked for the more well 'known' places like Monaco, Cannes, and St. Tropez. While all those places are beautiful in their own right, I am very thankful to be able to have the time and the ability to discover these so called 'hidden gems' as well. We left Nice around noon and had reservations at 7:30 in Italy in which we just barely made. It's a shame to think of all those times in the past we took the highway and missed out a great experience. 2 Corniches down, 1 to go.
**The Grande Corniche has been featured in many films and is a very popular car commercial location. Both James Bond's 'Goldeneye' and 'To Catch a Thief' with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly were filmed on the Grande Corniche and coincidentally, Grace Kelly died on a winding road connecting the Grande and the Moyenne in 1982, not far from where she had filmed the movie.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – In its final road game of the season, the MIT women's lacrosse team fell to Springfield College, 13-2, in a NEWMAC contest on Saturday afternoon. Senior Katie Kauffman (Olney, Md.) and junior Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) provided the scoring for the Engineers.
Kauffman added three groundballs while junior Laura Wacker (Brooklyn, N.Y.) tallied a trio of draw controls and caused turnovers. Freshman Elizabeth Dethy (Morristown, N.J.) collected a team-high four groundballs as junior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) registered three draw controls. In net, sophomore Sarah Ritter (The Woodlands, Texas) turned away 12 shots.
Over the course of 16 minutes in the first half the Pride posted eight unanswered goals, the last coming at the 12:06 mark. The Engineers generated seven shots on goal during the frame but Springfield's goalie was impenetrable.
The hosts' margin grew courtesy of five goals during a 13-minute stretch in the second stanza. MIT ended the shutout on Kauffman's solo effort with 7:41 left to play while Wright found the back of the net with just over a minute remaining.
MIT (2-12, 0-4 NEWMAC) returns to Cambridge on Tuesday, April 17 for a NEWMAC battle with Babson College.


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Obama wins, tells nation 'we can seize this future together'
Winning a second term in a closely divided election, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that America's "common bond" can help the country overcome its biggest disagreements, because "that's who we are."
"That's the country I'm so proud to lead as your president," Obama told a jubilant crowd of supporters in Chicago just before 2 a.m. "And tonight, despite all the hardship we've been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I've never been more hopeful about our future."
The election was a referendum on who could better ease Americans' economic anxiety, and Obama appealed to voters for more time to fix the problems he inherited. Republican challenger Mitt Romney asserted that Obama had made the problems worse and promoted his own business experience as the solution.
"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us, so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting," Obama said.
Obama, who was to return to the White House on Wednesday afternoon, said he looked forward to sitting down with Romney in the coming weeks to begin to address the nation's looming challenges, including a set of automatic spending cuts and tax increases.
Romney conceded just before 1 a.m. in Boston. "This is a time of great challenges for America and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation," the former Massachusetts governor said.
It was a close election to the finish. Obama defeated Romney with more than 300 electoral votes and broke 50 percent of the popular vote.
Saying that the best for America was yet to come, Obama concluded, "We can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggest."
But Washington the day after the election remained divided: a Democratic president, a Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a Democratic-majority Senate.
The president will have to work with the same Republican leaders who opposed his major policy initiatives, from the economic stimulus and health care to climate change and immigration reform.
"Now it's time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
During the campaign, Republicans alienated key constituencies, including women and Latinos, who were crucial to the president's victory. They lost Senate seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and failed to capture others from vulnerable Democrats.
Obama held together the same coalition that put him in the White House in 2008. He widened his lead among Latinos, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. He also maintained his overwhelming support from African-Americans and won a majority of women and young people.
Obama, the second Democrat to win a second term since World War II, won 26 states and the District of Columbia, sweeping the Northeast and West Coast and winning most of the Rust Belt battlegrounds, including Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He held onto states in the interior West with fast-growing Hispanic populations, such as Nevada and Colorado.
Two states Obama won last time _ North Carolina and Indiana _ went to Romney.
Romney won 23 states in all, largely dependably Republican states across the South and into Texas and the Great Plains. Obama held a 46,000-vote lead in Florida early Wednesday.
Turnout was reported heavy. Experts still expected it to remain below 2008 levels, finding voters less engaged. About 32 million people had voted early, either in person or by mail.
Obama's vote total early Wednesday stood at 50 percent to Romney's 48 percent, with 97 percent of precincts reporting.
Romney, who is 65 and has pursued the presidency twice without success, made no announcement of his immediate plans, but his wife, Ann, earlier indicated that this campaign would be his last.
Obama took office in January 2009 with a mandate to revive an economy still struggling to recover from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Six of 10 voters Tuesday said the economy was the most important issue, well ahead of health care or foreign policy. Three of four voters said the economy remained poor or not so good.
Obama touted the economy's steady progress on his watch. Romney cited stubbornly high unemployment and mounting federal debt as he argued the recovery's pace was too slow. In exit polls, slightly more than half said Obama was more in touch with people like them, compared with 44 percent for Romney.
Obama was dogged throughout the year by voters expressing qualms about his stewardship of the economy. He was unlikely to match the nearly 53 percent share of the popular vote he got in 2008, or match the 365 electoral votes he won that year.
Obama was vulnerable from the beginning. Within weeks of taking office he pushed through an $831 billion economic stimulus plan aimed at easing the recession's impact. In 2010, he won approval of a historic overhaul of the nation's health system, which will require nearly everyone to obtain coverage by 2014.
Both measures were passed with virtually no Republican support and often bitter partisan wrangling. Republicans saw a huge political opening, and fueled by the grassroots tea party movement, the party won control of Congress in 2010 by protesting what it called Obama's over reliance on and expansion of government.
At the same time, the economy struggled to recover. The nation's unemployment rate, 7.8 percent the month Obama took office, went to 10 percent that October and was 7.9 percent last month – more ammunition for the Republicans.
Obama, though, got some breaks. The economy did recover. Unemployment has dropped from its highs. Consumer confidence inched up. And Romney struggled at first to win the hearts of the conservative base of the Republican Party.
Obama exploited Romney's past, recalling his support of Massachusetts' abortion rights laws and his support for the state's health care law, considered a model for the federal program.
Romney won the nomination only after an unexpected struggle against a weak field, and not until the summer and fall did the party base begin rallying around him. The choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, a rising young party leader, helped energize the right, but Romney's biggest boost came during the Oct. 3 debate in Denver.
Romney's assured performance that night galvanized conservative support and seemed to give him new momentum. He briefly opened up a larger lead over Obama, only to see it fade as the president came back and did well in the next two debates.


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No. 83,262
DAVID R. MCKUNE, et al.,
K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) is constitutional.
Appeal from Leavenworth District Court; ROBERT J. BEDNAR, judge. Opinion filed March 31, 2000. Affirmed.
Linda S. Mock, of Leavenworth, for the appellant.
James W. Coder, assistant attorney general, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellees.
Before KNUDSON, P.J., PIERRON, J., and VAN HAMPTON, District Judge, assigned.
PIERRON, J.: Appellant Robin Branson appeals from an order dismissing his K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 60-1501 petition for habeas corpus relief following the Kansas Parole Board's (Board) decision to pass him for a period of 10 years pursuant to K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j). Appellant was convicted of two counts of murder in 1984 and received a 15 years-to-life sentence. After serving 15 years, appellant became eligible for parole and was brought before the Board on December 1, 1998. The Board rendered the following action notice denying appellant parole:
"'After considering all the statutory factors contained in KSA 22-3717, the decision of the KPB is as follows: Pass. to January, 2009. Pass reasons: Serious and violent nature and circumstances of the crime, objections regarding parole, disciplinary reports. Inmate has been sentenced for a class A or B felony or an off grid felony and the board makes a special finding that a subsequent parole hearing should be deffered [sic] for 10 years, because it is not reasonable to expect that parole would be granted at a hearing if held before then, for the reasons indicated: Extended pass reasons: Two (2) cold blooded killings, strong public and official opposition to parole.'"
On January 11, 1999, appellant filed a K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 60-1501 petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717, as amended subsequent to 1984 and as applied to him, violated the ex post facto prohibitions of the United States Constitution because the statute utilizes a more rigorous standard for determining parole eligibility.
The district court dismissed appellant's petition holding K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717 is a procedural statute, and it is not affected by ex post facto provisions of the United States Constitution.
Appellant first contends the application of K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717, as amended, violates the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution by allowing the Board to pass consideration of appellant for 10 years. Appellant acknowledges this court has previously determined that K.S.A. 22-3717 is procedural and not subject to the prohibitions of the ex post facto clause in Bookless v. McKune, 22 Kan. App. 2d 829, Syl. ¶ 4, 926 P. 2d 661, rev. denied 260 Kan. 991 (1996), and Lamb v. Kansas Parole Board, 15 Kan. App. 2d 606, 812 P.2d 761 (1991). However, appellant urges reconsideration of this determination.
K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) states:
"If parole is denied for an inmate sentenced for a class A or class B felony or an off-grid felony, the board shall hold another parole hearing for the inmate not later than three years after the denial unless the parole board finds that it is not reasonable to expect that parole would be granted at a hearing if held in the next 10 years or during the interim period of a deferral. In such case, the parole board may defer subsequent parole hearings for up to 10 years but any such deferral shall require the board to state the basis for its findings."
In granting summary judgment, the district court relied primarily on California Dept. of Corrections v. Morales, 514 U.S. 499, 131 L. Ed. 2d 588, 115 S. Ct. 1597 (1995), to determine whether the statute violated the ex post facto clause. In Morales, defendant was convicted of murder on two occasions. Under the law in place when defendant committed the second murder, he would have been entitled to parole hearings on an annual basis. However, the law was amended and the parole board was authorized to defer subsequent hearings for up to 3 years if the prisoner had been convicted of more than one instance of taking a life and the board "'finds that it is not reasonable to expect that parole would be granted at a hearing during the following years and states the bases for the finding.'" 514 U.S. at 503 (quoting Cal. Penal Code §3041.5(b)(2) [West 1982]). Morales argued this amendment constituted an ex post facto law in violation of the Constitution. 514 U.S. at 504.
The United States Supreme Court held this statute did not increase the punishment for criminal acts by allowing for a longer period of time between parole hearings. 514 U.S. at 505. The Court stated: "The amendment creates only the most speculative and attenuated possibility of producing the prohibited effect of increasing the measure of punishment for covered crimes, and such conjectural effects are insufficient under any threshold we might establish under the Ex Post Facto Clause." 514 U.S. 509. The Court held the statute did not violate the clause because (1) it only applied to a small class of prisoners for whom the likelihood of parole was remote; (2) it did not affect the prisoner's initial parole eligibility determination, and it only affected subsequent parole hearings; and (3) the board retained the authority to tailor the frequency of the hearings and could allow an expedited hearing if circumstances warranted. 514 U.S. 510-11.
The district court in this case held that the Kansas statute was similar to the California statute in Morales, and the statute "does not have the purpose and effect of enhancing the range of available prison terms, but rather the statute merely alters the method to be followed in fixing a parole hearing." Appellant concedes Morales is controlling and his circumstances do not fall under the first two factors considered by the court. However, appellant argues K.S.A. 22-3710 prohibits judicial review of the actions of the parole board except when in compliance with applicable statutes, and "K.S.A. 22-3717(j) allows the preclusion of a request for an expedited hearing by its very language if a finding is made that the inmate would not be granted parole if a hearing were held at any time during the next 10 years."
Appellant argues this "safety valve"of an expedited hearing is missing under Kansas law. However, his argument is in error because he is misinterpreting the requirement of the third factor in Morales. K.S.A. 22-3710 sets the standards for judicial review of parole board actions, and it has nothing to do with the Kansas Parole Board allowing an expedited hearing if necessary. The third factor in Morales deals specifically with the ability of the board to conduct an expedited hearing, and it is not concerned with judicial review of the board's actions.
Further, express language in the statutes allowing an expedited hearing by the parole board is not required. The district court in this case cited to Raymer v. Enright, 113 F. 3d 172 (10th Cir. 1997), cert. denied 522 U.S. 872 (1997), which discusses the third factor that the parole board has the authority to allow an expedited hearing. In Raymer, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit used the analysis provided by Morales to uphold a parole hearing deferment statute similar to the California statute in Morales and K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j). 113 F. 3d at 174-76. Raymer argued Colorado law did not specifically provide authority for the parole board to hold an expedited hearing under the third Morales factor. However, the Tenth Circuit noted:
"The Morales Court also stated that if a drastic change of circumstances rendered a prisoner suitable for parole between hearings, an expedited hearing was possible. See 514 U.S. at 510-12, 115 S. Ct. at 1604. Plaintiff argues Colorado has no such provision, but apparently neither did California; it was merely a possibility. Id. at 524 n. 9, 115 S. Ct. at 1610 n. 9 (Stevens, J., dissenting)." 113 F. 3d at 175.
Thus, as long as a possibility of the expedited hearing exists under Kansas law, K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) does not violate the ex post facto clause. Kansas law does not preclude an expedited hearing from occurring. Thus, appellant's argument fails.
Appellant next argues K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717 violates the ex post facto clause by failing to require specific reasons for passing the appellant for a period in excess of 2 years. The State argues appellant generally raised the ex post facto issue; however, this court should not consider the issue because he did not specifically raise the issue of whether the reasons used by the Board to justify the 10-year pass were ex post facto violations. While appellant did not raise this issue in his pro se petition, his appointed counsel did raise this issue in his response to the State's motion to dismiss. The district court did not specifically rule on this issue. As appellant did raise the issue below, we will consider it.
K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) provides that if the parole board defers subsequent parole hearings for up to 10 years then "any such deferral shall require the board to state the basis for its findings." Appellant contends the Morales court required specific factual findings to support the parole board's decision to defer subsequent hearings for an extended period, and K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) only "requires that the parole board state the basis for its deferral but does not require specificity."
The Morales court did not require any type of specific findings to keep the statute from violating the ex post facto clause. In fact, the Court noted under Cal. Penal Code §3041.5(b)(2) (West 1982) the parole board must conduct a full hearing and review of all relevant facts and "state the bases for its finding." 514 U.S. at 511. Under the plain language of these statutes, the California statute requires no more specificity than the Kansas statute.
Appellant also contends "the parole board should be required to articulate specific facts and that said facts should relate not just to the crime which he committed but his present attitude and condition, specifically as it relates to rehabilitation" as mandated under K.S.A. 75-5201 et seq. Appellant argues the parole board's focus has turned from rehabilitation assessment to punishment.
K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(h)(2) requires the Board to consider among other things:
"all pertinent information regarding such inmate, including, but not limited to, the circumstances of the offense of the inmate; the presentence report; the previous social history and criminal record of the inmate; the conduct, employment, and attitude of the inmate in prison; the reports of such physical and mental examinations as have been made; comments of the victim and the victim's family; comments of the public; official comments; and capacity of state correctional institutions."
The Kansas Supreme Court has held:
"the nature of the crime is a consideration to be taken into account and thus can be cited as a reason for denial of parole. . . . The acts of one person in committing an offense may be quite different and much less or much more shocking and heinous than the acts of another person in committing the same statutorily defined offense." Gilmore v. Kansas Parole Board, 243 Kan. 173, 177, 756 P.2d 410 (1988), cert. denied 488 U.S. 930 (1988).
Further, this court seems to have approved similar language used by the Board in this case in denying parole in Torrence v. Kansas Parole Board, 21 Kan. App. 2d 457, 458-59, 904 P.2d 581 (1995). In Torrence, the parole board denied appellant parole based on the following reasons: "the serious nature and circumstances of the crime (aggravated crime), Torrence's history of criminal activities, the fact that Torrence has been imprisoned five times, and the fact that there were civilian objections to him being granted parole." 21 Kan. App. 2d at 458. This court held the reasons given by the parole board were consistent with those approved by the Kansas Supreme Court in Gilmore, and they complied with K.S.A. 1993 Supp. 22-3717(k). 21 Kan. App. 2d at 459.
The reasons given by the Board clearly fall under the mandates of K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3717(j) and Kansas case law. Thus, appellant's argument fails.


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Action from the international friendly between the United States (left) and host Scotland on November 15, 2013, at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: FIFA via Getty Images)
GLASGOW, Scotland -- In its penultimate international match of the year, the United States played host Scotland to a 0-0 stalemate at Hampden Park on Friday.
The Americans, who clinched their seventh consecutive World Cup berth in September, complete their 2013 schedule at Austria on Tuesday.
Scotland attempted the encounter's first three shots in the opening 11 minutes -- two by Steven Fletcher and one by Craig Conway -- before Jozy Altidore took the Americans' first in the 14th minute, sailing his effort well over the crossbar.
Four minutes later, midfielder Michael Bradley sent a ball into the penalty area to Altidore, who slid it back to overlapping left-back DaMarcus Beasley. His effort, however, was blocked by a defender.
The visitors continued to push for a goal in the 33rd minute. Bradley again delivered the ball into the box for Brad Evans to tap it towards the net. A waiting Altidore was ready to knock it in, but an alert Scottish defender intervened.
Shortly afterwards, Robert Snodgrass gathered a throw-in, drawing U.S. defenders Omar Gonzalez and Evans in his direction. As the Norwich City winger dropped the ball to Conway, goalkeeper Tim Howard came off his line, forcing the shot to go wide.
Altidore tried to break the deadlock three minutes after the break, firing directly at goalkeeper David Marshall.
Snodgrass' curling free kick in the 53rd minute looked destined for the upper right corner until Howard made the save.
Trying to inject fresh legs into the match, U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann made three changes in the 62nd minute, replacing Eddie Johnson, Jermaine Jones and Sacha Kljestan with Brek Shea, Mix Diskerud and Aron Johannsson, respectively.
Johannsson forced Marshall to make a stop with seven minutes left in regulation time and powered another try wide two minutes later.
The U.S., which saw its winning streak end at three games, defeated Scotland, 5-1, in their previous meeting last year in Jacksonville, Florida.


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This story is one to make a car lover keel over.
A massive mill fire in Charlton, Mass., last week destroyed 17 classic cars — a whopping $2 million in rare vehicles. The five-alarm fire actually ravaged six businesses including Werke Classic Coach, which housed the vintage cars.
OK, take a deep breath.
Werke Classic Coach owner Gary Cove told the Boston Globe that the 17 classic cars he lost on that dreadful night included:
- a $750,000 Mercedes
- several Porsche 356s and 911s
- two Jaguar E-Types aaaaaaand
- a 1933 Rolls Royce
Before you fall over weeping with grief, the businessman DID save several classic vehicles including: an Alfa Romeo Giulia SS worth $165,00; an $800,000 1957 Mercedes 300SL; a $700,000 1964 Shelby Cobra.
Cove has owned Werke Classic Coach for 38 years, 22 of which were spent at Old Woolen Mill, making him the mill's longest running tenant.
Did an Illegal Chop Shop Cause the Blaze?
The web site Jalopnik.com has learned some exclusive details about the blaze.
A friend of Cove, Nick Schiappa, told the site that several tenants in the complex repeatedly reported to local officials that immigrants from Ghana had been operating an illegal chop shop there.
Schiappa told Jalopnik that Cove "and his dad and a couple of other people in the complex made numerous calls to the Fire Department because these dudes from Ghana were cutting gas tanks out with torches."
As if that report wasn't bad enough, Cove also said that he actually would have saved more of the cars if the town of Charlton had more fire hydrants.
If you can still stomach it, check out the before and after photo of two of the Porches that Jalopnik got their hands on.


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Digital Agenda: EU grid project unlocks processing power of 200,000 desktop computers for European researchers
EU researchers will have sustainable and continuous access to the combined processing power of over 200,000 desktop computers in more than 30 European countries thanks to the European Commission funded European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) project launched today. The Commission is contributing €25 million over four years to the EGI-InSPIRE project to link the processing capacity of desktop computers when they would otherwise be idle and so give researchers the processing power needed to tackle complex problems in environment, energy or health. The EGI, the largest collaborative production grid infrastructure for e-Science ever created, will enable teams of researchers in different geographical locations to work on a problem as if they were in the same laboratory. Reinforcing research infrastructures such as EGI forms part of the Digital Agenda for Europe, the Commission's strategy to maximise the social and economic potential of information and communication technologies (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200).
Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said: "European researchers' access to greater computing power will help them to tackle major research challenges in areas such as climate change and healthcare. The European Grid Infrastructure will help strengthen Europe's hand in research and give our scientists the support they need, whilst saving energy and cutting costs."
The massive processing capacity required in research on areas such as climate change and health can either be sourced from large "super computers" provided by the PRACE initiative (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, see IP/10/706), or by tapping the processing capacity of thousands of otherwise idle desktop computers connected via high-speed communications networks.
On average, a desktop computer remains idle for around 60-85% of the time. Networks like EGI distribute computing tasks involving large amounts of data among the processing capacity of many thousands of separate desktop computers, putting their idle processor cycles to productive use. EGI-InSPIRE will give European researchers access to the aggregated processing power of 200,000 desk-top computers hosted by more than 300 centres around the world. The Commission is contributing €25 million over four years to the €73 million project. Other funding is provided from national sources such as National Grid Initiatives (NGI).
The precursor to EGI, the Enabling Grid for eScience, received more than €100 million in EU funding over 8 years. It is used today by 13,000 researchers and for example helps physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to study the smallest known particles and helps biologists and scientists to develop new drugs for diseases like avian flu and malaria.
Enabling different research communities to hook up to the processing capacity of existing computers could also lead to major cost and energy savings. In the next few years, Europe is expected to invest more than €2 billion in new ICT research infrastructures for physical sciences and engineering, energy, environmental sciences, biological and medical sciences, social sciences and humanities, and materials and analytical facilities. Significant savings can be made if researchers at these facilities use the processing power available via the EGI, rather than developing their own alternative networks or supercomputers. EGI may also be used to test various cloud-based technologies and services.
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- A non-partisan nightmare:
The factional disputes inherent in Washington politics are generally put aside when a true catastrophe occurs. Of course there are always—-in every situation—-those who will take any kind of disaster and twist it to suit their own needs, truth be damned.
In a baseball sense, the Washington Nationals have the potential to be just such a calamity.
What are they doing?
You can debate the Jayson Werth signing; call it an expensive mistake; say that they'll be paying a good player great player money until he's in his late-30s. But the fact remains that at least Werth is a good player. The assertions that he's a "player who's never driven in 100 runs" as if that's the barometer of the contract are absurd.
But it's the other moves the Nationals have made that are going to exacerbate the hellish fate that awaits them.
They desperately need pitching. Their current number 1 starter is listed as Livan Hernandez; they re-signed Chien-Ming Wang after Wang missed the entire 2010 season recovering from shoulder surgery and hasn't pitched at all since mid-2009; they have the middling likes of Jason Marquis, Scott Olsen and John Lannan on the roster; they're looking at Carl Pavano; and appear to be waiting—-again—-for Stephen Strasburg to arrive, yank open his shirt, show the "S" on his T-shirt and rescue the franchise.
That didn't exactly work the last time.
As for their offense, are they better with Werth? Perhaps they would be had they not traded Josh Willingham to the Athletics for outfielder Corey Brown and RHP Henry Rodriguez.
This exacerbates the overall point.
What are the Nationals?
What's the plan?
Are they trying to win immediately?
Are they rebuilding and trying to compete simultaneously?
Do they have the young personnel to justify the aggressive, expensive and risk/reward decisions that are currently being made?
The latest is Rick Ankiel.
Like Werth, I have to ask the question: is he going to pitch?
Ankiel can play the outfield; he's better than what they currently have on their depth chart beside Werth (Nyjer Morgan and Roger Bernadina), but he's not better than Willingham. Willingham's abilities have long be underappreciated and he was inexpensive for everything he did. When he was with the Marlins, all the focus was placed on Dan Uggla and Hanley Ramirez, but the hitter I most feared in a big situation was Willingham. And they dispatched him for the future.
But are they playing for the future or making the mistake of being several things at once?
Well-run teams who are successful are learning the error of their ways as they use dual strategies of winning and maintaining the pipeline. They're correctly altering their strategy. But the Nats? A franchise that has had one .500 season since 2003 (when they were still in Montreal); they're not good. They're not in a financial position to be making such prohibitive signings as Werth for that amount of money.
But they are.
One thing that's glossed over when players are signed to deranged contracts like that of Werth isn't that it's an overpayment for a limited player; it's that it hinders what the club can do to fill out the roster.
Such is the situation the Cardinals are going to face with Albert Pujols as they come to grips with the prospect of a contentious negotiation with the Joe DiMaggio of this generation; can the Cardinals maintain competition with Pujols taking up a massive percentage of their payroll so they can barely afford anyone else?
Jayson Werth is not Albert Pujols.
The only answer to my question as to whether there's a plan is this: there is no plan. They're just doing things. Things that aren't going to assist in a leap to contention; things that are going to keep the club in the netherworld of mediocrity and worse. They're in a vicious division, they have no pitching and they can't really hit.
So where's the improvement?
It's not there.
- Viewer Mail 12.22.2010:
Matt writes RE the Yankees and Zack Greinke:
If I were the Yank's I'd take Derek Lowe off the Braves hands, presumably for little more than his salary commitment. He'd eat innings per usual and with their offense I could easily see him being a 15 game winner. For what it's worth (not much) I was at Fenway this summer and watched Grienke throw a 1-run complete game loss against Clay Buchholz's gem and obviously came away impressed. I think he'd have thrived in NY or anywhere else.
I actually—-and this is 100% true—-had mentioned Derek Lowe as an option for them and deleted it. I don't see the Braves moving him now with the Phillies as loaded up with pitching as they are; the Braves are a Wild Card favorite with Lowe; they'd need to bring pitching back to replace him and dealing him makes no sense now.
I love Greinke's talent. What impresses me most about him is the way he can amp it up when he gets into trouble, raising his fastball from 92-93 to 96. His control, command and stuff are undeniable. The big issue is his mentality and handling the pressure. There won't be as much pressure in Milwaukee as there would've been with the Yankees, but he couldn't deal with pitching for a rotten team in Kansas City; there's always a chance of those issues recurring.
I do hope he handles the off-field stuff and shows what he can do on the field in a pennant race.
Max Stevens writes RE the Athletics:
Prince, have you noticed that the Oakland A's have quietly made themselves a much better team this offseason, perhaps even the team to beat in the AL West? They already had pretty solid pitching, and the addition of Willingham and Matsui brings some much needed thunder to their lineup. There's a lot of 'ifs' involved in my thinking about this, but let's say the A's get Beltre, the Rangers don't re-sign Vald or find a suitable replacement for him, and the Angels fail to upgrade their offesne significantly. If all this happens, Oakland will win 90 games or so, which would probably be enough to take the West. What say you?
I think the A's are going to be really good next year. Their pitching is young, but they have a lot of it; I would hesitate to expect young pitchers to repeat their work from one year to the next, but the extra firepower in their lineup will give them the leeway to fall back and still bound into legitimate contention; that division isn't particularly great either, so they have a giant opening to dive through.
Jeff at Red State Blue State writes RE yesterday's posting:
"Understandable but mistaken."
Jeff, I bring it sometimes. I….bring….IT!!!!
I was on with Sal at SportsFan Buzz last Wednesday talking about Cliff Lee, Carl Crawford and all the other stuff that's gone on in baseball. Go to Sal's site for the I-tunes link or click The SportsFan Buzz: December 15, 2010 to listen directly.


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Transcode Panasonic LX7 MTS to FCP 7/X with ProRes codec
Transcode Panasonic LX7 MTS to FCP 7/X with ProRes codec
Best way to ingest Sony PJ790V/PJ780 MTS to iMovie & FCE
Edit Sony Handycam PJ790V/PJ7800 MTS file in iMovie/FCE smoothly
Summary: In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert Sony Handycam PJ790V/PJ7800 AVCHD .mts videos files to iMovie/FCE compatible format for editing without problems.
Sony Handycam HDR-PJ790V/PJ780 are very popular models among Sony Handycam series and many people prefer to shoot vacation videos with them; for that they are not large in size and capable of shooting high quality AVCHD videos in MTS. Hereby many mac users would prefer to edit the Sony Handycam HDR-PJ790V/PJ780 MTS videos on Mac directly, in programs like iMovie 8/9/11, Final Cut Express 4, etc.
Here comes the problem: can I import Sony Handycam AVCHD footage to iMovie/FCE for editing?
The answer is yes! Follow these steps, you can easily import and editing Sony Handycam HDR-PJ790V/780 AVCHD MTS videos in iMovie 8/9/11 and Final Cut Express 4 with the help of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. With it you are able to fast convert Sony MTS videos to iMovie/FCE editable video easily. Also it provides a high conversion speed and supports bath conversion. What's more, its built-in video editor enables you custom MTS files freely.
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Step-by-step guide on converting Sony Handycam HDR-PJ790V/780 MTS videos to iMovie/FCE.
Step 1. Directly Download this mac-based program here to your Mac. Install and run it successfully.
Step 2. Add MTS file.
Use USB cable to hook your Sony Handycam to Mac and keep it on. Thus this camera will show as a hard drive icon on desktop.
Pls note the top left icons; you can click the first one to load individual MTS (real video clips), or click the second one to load the entire AVCHD folder. Wait a moment,source files will be load soon.
Attached the AVCHD file structure:
Step 3. Output Settings for iMovie and Final Cut Express.
Click "Format" and choose "iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" as the best video codec for iMovie 8/9/11 and FCE 4.
Thirdly, you can click "Settings" and customize output video specs depending on your own needs.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start converting Sony Handycam HDR-PJ790V/PJ780 AVCHD MTS to AIC MOV for iMovie/FCE. Wait for a few moments, click "Open" to locate the converted video.
After format conversion finished, you can launch iMovie and add the converted camera clips to your Even library through "File -> Import -> Movies..." like this:
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Transcode Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF to FCP with video only, no audio
Transcode Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF to FCP with video only, no audio
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Summary: Follow this article you will know how to solve Panasonic HVX200 MXF editing problems with Final Cut Pro X on Mac as well as how to work out the "no audio issues".
To start, the HVX200 becomes only the second camera in Panasonic's lineup to employ true variable frame rates! While, when you want to import Panasonic HVX200 P2 MXF files in FCP X on Mac for editing, you will get frustrated due to the video codec incompatibility problem as below.
I would like ton convert MXF files from my Panasonic P2 AG-HVX200, to ProRes 422 for FCP X. As the files have proved to be not so well-suited when they are about to be edited in my Final Cut Pro X. I have converted many files from this same camera with no problem but for some reason now it has no audio.
I try the Free HD Video Converter For Mac, and it work well. So I bought and register HD VIDEO CONVERTER FOR MAC, but when I convert MXF files to Prores422, I have no audio. So I bought MXF CONVERTER FOR MAC and I have the same problem, no audio. What's the problem? Is there a way someone can help walk me through this?
To edit Panasonic HVX200 P2 video footage with Final Cut Pro, you have to convert P2 MXF to FCP natively supported video format like MOV with Apple ProRes Codec. Here we recommend you the best P2 MXF Converter for Mac which can help you to transcode Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes .mov format for FCP on Mac OS X quickly and easily. Here comes the detailed guide.
Note before converting:
1. Please ensure that the computer you are using to do P2 MXF conversion has Final Cut Pro installed, otherwise, the converted files will have audio only without image.
2. If you are using FCP X, please make sure you have installed ProApps QuickTime Codecs, or you may get files with sound only without video. The FCP X does not install the ProApps QuickTime Codecs automatically, so you need download and install the codec manually.
While importing MXF clips to Pavtube MXF to ProRes converter for conversion, please make sure you have the entire MXF file structure as it saved on your camcorder's P2 card. If you only have some loose .MXF clips, your files will have image only without audio. See MXF file structure on Panasonic's P2 card as below.
The above screenshot clearly shows .MXF clips are all saved in 'VIDEO' folder, while audio files are all stored in 'AUDIO' folder. When you importing .MXF clips from the correct file structure, Pavtube MXF to FCP Converter is able to recognize audio tracks from 'AUDIO' folder automatically, which ensures the generated ProRes 422 MOV files have both image and sound correctly.
Guide: Convert Panasonic HVX200 MXF files to FCP X on Mac
Step 1: Add MXF video files.
Download and run Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac. Click the button "Add video" or "Add from folder" to add Panasonic HVX200 MXF files, or directly drag and drop your P2 MXF files.
Step 2: Select an output format for FCP X and set the output folder.
Click on the "Format" and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), it's the best format for editing in FCP X.
Step 3: Click "Settings" icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the "Settings" icon and you will go into a new interface named "Profile Settings". You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Tips: If your default audio track is in mute when recording, you may get only video without audio. So you can switch to the audio stream ID option to choose the right audio track.
Step 4: Start Converting.
Click the "Convert" button; it will convert Panasonic HVX200 P2 MXF files to Apple ProRes for FCP X on Mac immediately.
After the MXF to ProRes conversion, you will be able to get the output files for FCP X via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can import the converted videos to FCP X freely for further editing without any trouble.
Futhermore, if your MXF files have 2 audio tracks or more, here is a new program named iMixMXF with multi-track preserving and mixing features. You can download the trial version for evaluation!
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Rip/Convert DVD ISO/IFO to Multi-track MP4 for iPad Air
Rip/Convert DVD ISO/IFO to Multi-track MP4 for iPad Air
Description: This article tell you how to watch DVD ISO/IFO movies on iPad Air in multi-track MP4 format so you can switch to the desired language during playback.
If you own many DVD movies which have been backed up in ISO/IFO files on computer hard drive and would like to convert DVD ISO/IFO movies to multi-track MP4 so that you may watch movies on the new iPad Air with any language by switching to the desired one, the Pavtube DVD to iPad Air Converter is your great choice to rip DVD ISO/IFO and original DVD disc to iPad Air compatible MP4 format as well as multiple audio tracks saved for iPad Air playback.
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Part One. Rip/Convert DVD ISO/IFO to Multi-track MP4
Step 1. Free download the Multi-track DVD Converter (Mac users can download here, guide: Convert DVD to multi-track MP4 for iOS Devices on Mac), install and launch it. Click the "Load ISO/IFO" button to import source DVD ISO/IFO files.
Step 2. Choose "Multi-track Video > Multi-track MP4 (*.mp4)" from the "Format" drop-down list as output format.
Tip: This profile extracts more than one audio track from source DVD ISO/IFO movies in saved MP4 files. And you are allowed to remove unwanted audio track by unchecking the "Check" box in front of each audio source.
Step 3. Hit the "Convert" button on Pavtube ByteCopy main UI to start ripping DVD ISO/IFO to Multi-track MP4 for iPad Air. Once the conversion process finishes, open output folder and locate the created multi-track MP4 movie.
Part Two. Stream and watch Multi-track MP4 movies on iPad Air
Step 1. Install multi-track player on iPad Air. When typing in the keyword "multitrack player" in Apple Store, many free or charged apps would show up, choose one and install on your iPad Air.
Step 2. Open iTunes, and add created multi-track MP4 movie to this multi-track player.
Step 3. Open this multi-track player, open the source multi-track MP4, and choose wanted language during movie playback.
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Get AG-HMC150P mts video playback and create into DVD on Mavericks
Transcode Panasonic AG-HMC150P AVCHD to MP4 and Burn to DVD on Mac
Summary: In this article, you will get to know how to transcode Panasonic AG-HMC150P AVCHD videos to MP4 format and burn [/font][/color]Panasonic AG-HMC150P mts recordings to DVD for sharing, storing or managing on Mac.
The AG-HMC150 handheld is Panasonic's exciting new introduction to the AVCCAM series. Representing a major step forward in affordable HD video capture, the HMC150 utilizes highly efficient AVCHD recording, the industry's new long GOP standard based on MPEG-4, to provide stunning image quality and longer record time. The new handheld incorporates three 1/3-inch progressive CCD imagers to produce stunning 1920 x 1080 resolution picture quality far exceeding older Long GOP formats like HDV.
"The camera I have is a Panasonic AG-HMC150P. Having shot many AVCHD high definition recordings with it, it's as easy to use as a digital still camera. What I want is to present the 1080p full HD videos on my portable device for playbak or create into DVD for wathing? Then my video can be shared with my family and my dear friends. So hope to find the best workaround here. Thanks."
If you love photographing, AG-HMC150 is a very nice choice. As above, to successfull enjoy and share the exciting AVCHD footages from Panasonic AG-HMC150 with your friends, you just need to do Panasonic AVCHD to MP4 convertion and DVD burning on Mac.
To do this, Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac and DVD Creator for Mac come out to help you. Easy-to-use and time-saving as they are, they are ideal tools for AVCHD converting and DVD burning.
Now please follow the easy steps below to encode Panasonic AG-HMC150 1080p AVCHD video to playable MP4 format and write the mts footage into DVD on Mac.
Part 1: Convert Panasonic AG-HMC150 AVCHD MTS to MP4
1. Download Pavtube MTS to MP4 for Mac. Install and launch and import Panasonic AG-HMC150 recorded mts footage to the converter.
2. Click format bar to choose the output format. Click and choose HD Video -> H.264 HD Video (*.mp4).
3. You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want. Besides, you can use this software to edit your recordings, you can trim, crop, add watermark or adjust effect to the video, just need to click the "edit" button.
4. Click convert button to start.
Pavtube AVCHD Converter for Mac will convert Panasonic AG-HMC150P 1080p mts videos to MP4 with best video and audio quality.
After converting, you can enjoy and play the Panasonic AG-HMC150P mts footage on your smartphone or talbet as you want. Of course, you can also take it for storage on Mac.
Part 2: Burn Panasonic AG-HMC150P mts to DVD on Mac
1.Please download and install Pavtube DVD Creator for Mac, import 1080p MTS files from Panasonic AG-HMC150P to the software.
2.Click the import button to load your HD footages, you can click Add title button to add more titles.
3.Switch to Menu pane. Double-click a DVD menu beneath the Menu Template to apply it to your DVD. You can customize the background video/image, background music, text, title thumbnail and more for your DVD menu.
4.Click the Burn button to start making Panasonic AG-HMC150P mts movies into DVD on Mac. You can choose to burn Panasonic AG-HMC150P recorded MTS file to DVD disc, save as ISO file, or Generate videos to DVD Folder.
Now just have a try! You can not only convert Panasonic AG-HMC150P MTS to MP4 for playbak or storage and burn the MTS recordings into DVD for sharing, but also downscale or retain the 1080p/1080i/720p videos to resolution 720p/1080p which is supported by most players. That means you can play with the highest video quaility! It is definitely the best workaound for you!
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What's big, green and grows five feet per night? No, it's not your nephew Lionel. Any gardener– or, for that matter, anyone who drives Virginia byways– knows it's kudzu.
Originally planted for decoration, forage, and to control erosion, this vine native to China and Japan, has grown at such a rapid rate that it's choking natural growth in many areas of the Southeast, and Charlottesville is no exception. So on Sunday, March 13, members of the Outdoor Adventure Social Club volunteered their afternoon to combat the wild vine and take back McIntire Park.
Susan Pleiss of Charlottesville Parks and Grounds met nine members of the Club at the park and outfitted them with the rakes, clippers, and gloves they needed to clear out the kudzu. After a brief description of what to look for, the group went to work, tackling a 50-foot section of the park with gusto. After three hours, the group had made a huge difference. (Go see for yourself. Check out the embankment in front of the 250 West onramp at McIntire Park.)
Was the day all work and no play? No way! The social clubbers tackled their task with a notably cheery attitude, laughing, joking, and praising one another for a job well done. For more information on kudzu removal or the Club, call 760-HIKE or visit outdoorsocial.com.
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ATLANTA -- Pitching in the shadow of Adam Wainwright and with considerably less fanfare than the youngest two members of the Cardinals' rotation, Lance Lynn welcomes his place as the oft overlooked.
Lynn is the rotation misfit, of sorts, not all that interested in conformity or uniformity, but preferring to pitch uninhibited. The less he's noticed, the less he feels bombarded by opinions, the better positioned he believes he is for success.
ATLANTA -- Pitching in the shadow of Adam Wainwright and with considerably less fanfare than the youngest two members of the Cardinals' rotation, Lance Lynn welcomes his place as the oft overlooked.
Lynn is the rotation misfit, of sorts, not all that interested in conformity or uniformity, but preferring to pitch uninhibited. The less he's noticed, the less he feels bombarded by opinions, the better positioned he believes he is for success.
"When you have the luxury of them letting them be yourself," Lynn said, "it's easier to find yourself. That's just the process of getting to know each other."
Lynn has spent the early years of his Major League career evolving through perpetual self-discovery. He pitched in relief as a rookie on a 2011 team managed by Tony La Russa. With the next season came a new manager, coaching staff and role. Lynn arrived at Spring Training told to prepare to pitch the eighth inning. He left as the team's fifth starter.
Lynn went on to win 18 games and earn an All-Star invite that season despite feeling "like I was behind that whole year and playing catchup." Success rolled over into a 15-win season in 2013, though Lynn said he rarely felt comfortable.
First, Lynn was asked to temper his on-field emotions, as the Cards were concerned that his demeanor could be misinterpreted as disrespect shown toward an opponent, umpire or even teammates. Then there was a request to drop weight, something that left Lynn, in his opinion, without the strength to battle through the late summer months at his best.
It's been a few years of trial and error, as Lynn describes it, all leading to a 2014 season in which he now feels comfortable in his own skin. He's content breaking the mold and being left alone, the latter of which Lynn takes as an indication that the Cardinals believe he's earned himself some autonomy.
"I guess in the game of baseball, to be young and be considered a veteran is a good thing," Lynn said. "That means you have done things at a pretty high level where they expect certain things out of you and don't expect you to be a young guy."
That's not to suggest that the learning curve is over. Lynn doesn't have to look far in his own clubhouse to watch how Wainwright continues to evolve in an effort to tap into other ways to thrive. At 26, Lynn is still far from that point.
Lynn has proven himself dominant in March/April, amassing a 12-1 record in 15 career starts. The only player (minimum of 10 starts) with a better first-month winning percentage is Babe Ruth.
But to take another step forward in his career, Lynn has to sustain that. He's faltered the last two summers, with August (1-5, 5.75 ERA) being a particularly trying month for the right-hander. Lynn's expectation is to heed those lessons learned from 2012 and '13 to get his body right this time around.
"Hopefully this year, knowing what I'm going to get into and trying to get as strong as I possibly could, when I get into those months where it's warm out and I have a lot of pitches, a lot of innings start to build up that I'm in a position to where I can get through those and not have the fatigue factor," Lynn said.
"Lance is a competitor, and he's getting better in a lot of facets," added manager Mike Matheny. "Sometimes that comes from some struggles."
The right-hander eclipsed the 200-innings mark for the first time last season and now sees that figure as an expectation, not a goal. Lynn has thrown 41 through his first seven outings, a start that, if he were to match last season's total of 33 appearances, would put Lynn at 193 innings.
One who has long gotten stronger the deeper he pitches into games, Lynn hasn't gotten much opportunity to showcase that durability yet this year. He's pitched into the seventh just twice.
"If they know they're going to get 30-plus starts from you every year and 200 innings and below a 4.00 ERA, a lot of teams would take that, especially as a [No.] 3, 4 or 5 guy," Lynn said. "But I don't want to just be a 200-inning guy. And I don't want to be just a 30-start guy. As the process of going further, you learn how to pitch and become stronger and better and more confident. That's when you can make that step. I think that going into your second, third, fourth season, that's when you see guys either make that step or they are who they are. If I am who I am, then so be it. But I'm always trying to get better."
The constant through Lynn's circuitous path of self-understanding, though, has been that the team wins when he is on the mound. His 37 wins through since the start of the 2012 season is second in the National League only to Wainwright, who has one more during that span.
Lynn's peripheral numbers don't stand up to Wainwright's and his run support has been notably generous, but the Cards are not as apt to dismiss the number in that win column as are some sabermatricians.
"This game comes down to wins and losses," Matheny said. "That's what we're preaching in here. And a guy who finds a way to win, to me, needs to be given a lot of credit, because that's the ultimate goal for us. Whether you're getting a lot of support or throwing a shutout, one way or another, you're finding a way to get it done, and Lance has done that."
Lynn's objective now is to put more behind those wins and to give St. Louis another reliable six-month workhorse in the rotation. He has to prove himself ready to be left alone, capable of guiding his own career without interruption.
"When other teams see my name on the probables for today, I want to make them think, 'Hey, we have to do a lot of things right to score runs off him. It's going to be a tough game,'" Lynn said. "And when our offense comes in, I want them to see that I'm pitching and believe they have a chance to win. That's what I care about."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Texas A&M International University invites the public to attend
several free events presented at TAMIU throughout March in observance
of Women's History Month.
The TAMIU Women's History Month schedule includes:
Thursday, March 17 - "Tres Vidas" workshop
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Monday, March 28 - Recital by Sylvia Hazlerig at 7:30
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Tuesday, March 29 - Brownbag lecture: "Women Composers"
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One of the most popular books of the 12th century — what might be called medieval infotainment — was "The Vision of Tundale." Written by a man who claimed to have had a stroke and then, unconscious, to have been taken on a tour of heaven and hell, it was widely read not just for Christian edification but for pleasure. It described an ascension through layer upon layer of hell and then heaven, and thus through ever-increasing miraculous pleasures. Tundale sees orbs and goblets strung from gold chains in the sky, and when the angels fly through them, they make a sound like heavenly wind chimes.
Tundale yearns to stay, but his angelic guide leads him back to his body. When he wakes up from his coma, he is changed forever. He gives all his money and possessions to the poor and becomes a monk.
Sound familiar? This, in its broadest outlines, is the "plot" of "Proof of Heaven," the runaway bestseller by Eben Alexander III, a Duke- and Harvard-educated neurosurgeon who claims to have seen heaven in 2008 during a coma induced by bacterial meningitis. (The excerpt in Newsweek last month presaged the book's sensationalist debut.) Alexander's experience convinced him beyond doubt of the existence not just of heaven, but of a loving God. He now hopes, as he says in his book, to "serve the greater good by helping to create the best possible future for earth and its inhabitants."
Such visionaries have been visiting heaven for thousands of years, as I learned in the research for my book on the subject, and the outlines of their travels are remarkably similar. After a prelude in which the heavenly tourist endeavors to convince his listeners of his credibility as a narrator, he describes wonders — all the while claiming that the wonders pass description. "Words cannot express" and "language fails" are common refrains in such accounts, as they are in Alexander's. Uniting these accounts is a sense of a conviction that the reality of the next world supersedes this one. When in heaven, Alexander receives a message from God: "I instantly understood that it was true. I knew so in the same way that I knew the world around us was real — was not some fantasy, passing and insubstantial."
An insistence on the realness of heaven underlies all the recent bestsellers on the topic, including "90 Minutes in Heaven," the 2004 account by an evangelical pastor of his trip to the next life after a serious car accident, and "Heaven Is for Real," about a 4-year-old boy who travels to heaven and sees Jesus during a surgical procedure.
The disingenuous thing about Alexander's claims is not, as neuroscientist and rationalist Sam Harris argued in a hilarious and vitriolic critique on his blog, that the doctor's upbringing in watered-down, mainline Christianity led him inevitably to proclaim, like Tundale, the "good news" (Alexander uses the phrase) of Jesus Christ. It's that Alexander — or his editors at Simon & Schuster — cravenly believes that his fancy degrees, his bow tie and the numerals after his name somehow lend his account more authority. The subtext of his story is something like, "Because I'm a Harvard-educated doctor, you can believe me more than those Bible Belt Christians who've told this story before." As if going to Harvard inoculated a person against believing fantastical things. As if medical doctors never found their way, except through near-death experiences, to deep religious faith.
Let me be clear. I believe that Alexander "saw" what he says he saw and felt what he says he felt, and that, further, his experience was profound and life-changing for him. But no matter how many times he says the word "neurosurgeon" — 16 times in my Kindle edition — his authority on the afterlife is exactly the same as Tundale's and every other visionary's. To have experienced something and to have believed it to be true doesn't make it true for Alexander or any of us. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to know that.
But it doesn't make it untrue, either. Even Harris, the rationalist, agrees that there are things about the universe and consciousness that are mysterious.
"I remain agnostic on the question of how consciousness is related to the physical world," Harris wrote. "So although I am an atheist who can be expected to be unforgiving of religious dogma, I am not reflexively hostile to claims of the sort Alexander has made. In principle, my mind is open. (It really is.)"
The way I see it, heaven claims crumble when you subject them to empirical tests, which is all right, because heaven, for me, is not a matter of proof. It's exactly the opposite: a matter of faith. For me, belief in heaven (or an afterlife, or however you want to put it) is an embrace of the mysterious, unknown nature of things; a reverence for transcendent experience; and a radical hope in eternity as well as in the possibility of ultimate justice, love and truth. That heaven is possible but not provable is sufficient.
For Miller's previous columns, go to washingtonpost.com/onfaith.


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When Barbara W. Winder was called to be the 11th general president of the Relief Society, she said, "I want so, and desire so, that we be unified, one together with the priesthood, serving and building the kingdom of God here today and spreading the joy of the gospel to those who are so in need of it. This is His kingdom. We have a great responsibility to share it."1
The controversy over the proposed Equal Rights Amendment of the 1970s had divided American women. The 1980s brought more tolerance. "It is a time to heal," said Sister Winder, "a time to bond women to women and women to men. We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood."2
Barbara learned early through her own experience the value of Relief Society visiting teaching and how its emphasis on serving each other could bless lives. She had been married 11 months when her first baby was born. "One day, just after we had brought the baby home," she recounted, "I had a very high fever. Richard was at work. I had no car, no phone, and I was terrified." Thankfully, her visiting teachers stopped by and were able to get her the help she needed.3
"It is vital that each sister have visiting teachers," Sister Winder taught, "to convey a sense that she is needed, that someone loves and thinks about her. But equally important is the way the visiting teacher is able to grow in charity. By assigning our women to do visiting teaching, we give them the opportunity to develop the pure love of Christ, which can be the greatest blessing of their lives."4
Testimony of Barbara W. Winder
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Early Life
Barbara Woodhead was born May 9, 1931, in Midvale, Utah, to Marguerite Hand and Willard Verl Woodhead. She was the oldest of four children. Because her mother had to work, she often babysat her siblings. Barbara credits her parents with teaching her compassion as they took in and cared for family members as she was growing up. Although Barbara's parents were not active in the Church until she was an adult, they encouraged her to go to church and she wanted to go. It was a Primary teacher who took her to church and to her baptism.5
Marriage and Family
Barbara was majoring in home economics at the University of Utah when she met Richard William Winder. Less than three weeks later, they were engaged. They married on January 10, 1951, in the Salt Lake Temple. Nineteen cousins lived on the same road on which the Winders raised their four children. "It was a real source of strength to have each other," she said.6 Their second child, Susan W. Tanner, served as the 12th general president of the Young Women.
Relief Society Highlights
During Barbara's administration, the general offices of the Young Women and Primary were moved into the Relief Society Building. The auxiliaries would no longer work separately but together through the priesthood to address the needs of the children, young women, and adult women of the Church. The presidents of the auxiliaries traveled together to other countries for the first time. In difficult circumstances, letters and telephone calls became acceptable methods of visiting teaching.
Barbara was released as general president when her husband was called to be the president of the new Czechoslovakia Prague Mission from 1990 to 1993. The Winders served as the leaders of the Family History Center missionaries and later as the first president and matron of the Nauvoo Illinois Temple from 2002 to 2004.
Full Interview of Barbara W. Winder
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- Barbara W. Winder, "I Love the Sisters of the Church," Ensign, May 1984, 59.
- In Janet Peterson and LaRene Gaunt, Faith, Hope, and Charity (2008), 218.
- See Jan Underwood Pinborough, "Barbara Woodhead Winder: A Gift of Loving," Ensign, Oct. 1985, 30.
- Barbara W. Winder, in "Striving Together: A Conversation with the Relief Society General Presidency," Ensign, Mar. 1985, 12.
- See Peterson and Gaunt, Faith, Hope, and Charity, 204–7.
- Gerry Avant, "A Woman with Purpose," Church News, May 6, 1984, 14.


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