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European Volleyball Championship 2011
- Doubles (2v2) Edition
The European Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams, currently held biannually and there are both men's and women's competitions. This tournament is based on the men's tournament to celebrate the success of Estonian men's volleyball national team who now has qualified for the second time in a row to be part of the competition where top 16 European teams decide the best European country in volleyball. This tournament is based on The 2011 Men's European Volleyball Championship which was co-hosted by Austria and Czech Republic. Yes, it's a bit late but I did not have time to run this before, even though I prepared the whole tournament several months ago.
- 2v2, Doubles, Europa & Europe, Automatic, Sequential, Escalating, Chained, No Fog, Casual
- Tournament consists of 2 rounds: preliminary (round robin - Europa map) and championship (bracket of 8 - Europe map);
- Preliminary round consists of 4 pools of 4 nations (16 teams overall) where every team plays each other once (3 matches overall). Top 2 teams from each pool advance to championship bracket;
- Each match consists of up to 5 sets (i.e. CC games) that will be played one at a time until first team reaches 3 wins;
- Advancement is decided by points earned; tie situations will be broke by the sets' win-loss ratio (=won sets/lost sets);
- Winning a match gives 2 points, losing a match 1 point;
- Championship round will consist of quarterfinals (4 matches), semifinals (2 matches) and finals (1st and 3rd place matches). It's a simple best of 5 bracket where match ends when first team reaches 3 set wins;
- Winning team of the final match is declared winner of the tournament.
- Setup
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- Notes
Participating Countries
- Austria iLflankU/Escolox
- Czech Republic benga/wiztow
- Poland aaronvollrath/beeps
- France djelebert/sam02
- Bulgaria Butters1919/mydeskisclean
- Russia Quark_Star/Anarkistsdream -> will_mp40/coopclaret [Day 1, Set 2]
- Serbia V.J./Seamus76
- Slovenia Emperor69/KKlemen
- Finland Tin Trumpet/aspalm
- Portugal jghost7/gambler21210
- Germany MyTurnToWin/conquerhero
- Slovakia djeris/6 letters
- Italy Pirlo/italianipastido
- Belgium chard/Condor
- Estonia amazzony/ZionT
- Turkey pridekiller/spore08
will_mp40/coopclaret [in for Russia]


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Kiev, Ukrainian Kyiv, also spelled Kyyiv, Russian Kiyev, chief city and capital of Ukraine. A port on the Dnieper (Dnipro) River and a large railroad junction, it is a city with an ancient and proud history. As the centre of Kievan Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, 1,000 years ago, it acquired the title "Mother of Rus Cities." It was severely damaged during World War II, but by the mid-1950s it had been restored, and in the second half of the 20th century it enjoyed a well-developed economic and cultural life. The independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991 renewed Kiev's status as a major European capital. Pop. (2001) 2,611,327; (2017 est.) 2,925,760.
City site
The city stands on the Dnieper River just below its confluence with the Desna and 591 miles (951 km) from its mouth in the Black Sea. The original location was on the high and steep right (western) bank, which rises above the river in an imposing line of bluffs culminating in Batyyeva Hill, 330 feet (100 metres) above mean river level. This precipitous and wooded bank, topped by the golden domes and spires of churches and bell towers and by high-rise apartment buildings, makes the city an attractive and impressive sight from across the Dnieper. Since World War II, Kiev has extended onto the wide, low, and flat floodplain on the left (eastern) bank.
Kiev has a moderately continental climate. The average January temperature is 21 °F (−6 °C), and winter days with temperatures above freezing are not uncommon; in cold spells with a northerly or northeasterly airstream, temperatures may drop sharply, and an absolute minimum of −27 °F (−33 °C) has been recorded. Snow cover lies usually from mid-November to the end of March; the frost-free period lasts 180 days on average but in some years surpasses 200 days. Summers are warm, with a July average of 68 °F (20 °C) and a recorded maximum of 102 °F (39 °C). The mean annual precipitation is 25 inches (635 mm), with maximum rainfall in June and July.
City layout
The city limits enclose an area of 300 square miles (780 square km) on both banks of the Dnieper. It is divided into a number of administrative wards. The focus of Kiev is the area of the ancient Upper Town, crowning the high bluffs of the Dnieper. Although largely of postwar construction, this central area retains its old street pattern, and most of the surviving historical and architectural monuments are located there. First among these is the cathedral of St. Sophia, now a museum. It was built in the 11th century and remains, despite certain Baroque modifications in the 18th century, one of the finest and most beautiful examples of early Rus-Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture. It has a nave and four aisles and is crowned by five domes. The interior is magnificently decorated with frescoes and mosaics; it contains the tomb of Yaroslav I, the grand prince of Kiev during whose reign the cathedral was built.
Close by is the Baroque church of St. Andrew, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and built in the mid-18th century; its site on the crest of the steep slope to the river makes it a striking landmark. Other historical relics in the central area include the ruins of the Golden Gate, also built in the 11th century in the reign of Yaroslav; the Zaborovsky Gate, built in 1746–48; and the remains of the Desiatynna Church, or Church of the Tithes, built in 989–996 by Grand Prince Volodymyr (Vladimir I).
Within and immediately adjacent to the area of the former Old Town are many of the city's museums, theatres, and public buildings as well as the principal shops. The axis of the centre is the street known as Khreshchatyk, which runs along the bottom of a small valley the sides of which have in part been landscaped with terraced gardens interspersed with tall, modern office and apartment buildings. The greenery of the gardens, the trees lining the street, the squares that it intersects—all combine with the variegated colours of brick, red and gray granites, and decorative ceramic tiles to give Khreshchatyk an attractive and colourful aspect much admired by Kiev's inhabitants. Perhaps the most notable public square along Khreshchatyk is Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square"). It served as the centre of the Maidan (also called Euromaidan) protest movement that led to Ukrainian Pres. Viktor Yanukovych's being deposed in February 2014. Among important buildings on the street is that of the city council, where the elected deputies hold their meetings.
Intersecting Khreshchatyk at right angles is the wide, poplar-lined Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, on which stands the university with its eye-catching red-washed walls. There too is the cathedral of St. Volodymyr (still in use as a church), built in 1862–96 in Byzantine style and containing impressive paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, and other artists. Notable among the many statues in central Kiev are those that commemorate the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
North of the old centre is the former trading and Jewish quarter, Podil, with a rectangular pattern of streets and the old merchants' trading exchange, the House of Contracts, built in 1817. Also north of the old centre is the river port. South of the centre is the Pecherskyy district, along the top of the riverbank. This district contains many of the principal buildings of the Ukrainian government, including the glass-domed palace, built in 1936–39, that houses the Supreme Council and the 10-story block that houses the Cabinet of Ministers. Nearby is the attractive Mariinsky Palace, built in 1747–55 for the tsaritsa Elizabeth, reconstructed in 1870, and now used for government receptions.
At the southern end of this district is the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), founded in the mid-11th century, one of the most famous and important monasteries in the history of the region. It was at the lavra that the monk Nestor helped compile the earliest surviving chronicle of the East Slavic state of Rus. The Cathedral of the Assumption (inside the walls of the monastery), blown up in 1941 under circumstances that remain uncertain, has been completely rebuilt. Trinity Church, of the same period, survives. Also within the walls are the 17th-century Church of All Saints and an impressive 18th-century bell tower rising 315 feet (96 metres). A major feature of the monastery is the system of catacombs beneath it in which the mummified bodies of early monks and saints, including Nestor, are entombed. Although it is a museum open to the public, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is still in use as a monastery. South from the lavra is yet another monastery, the Vydubytsky, dating from the 11th century; it too was severely damaged in World War II but later underwent restoration.
All along the steep riverbank, fronting the Upper Town and Pecherskyy district, an attractively landscaped park has been laid out overlooking the Dnieper. With the views it affords, the park forms one of the most striking features of the city. It contains an open-air theatre, sports stadium, and restaurant, and a funicular railway climbs the 300-foot (90-metre) slope. Also within the park are many memorials. Dominating the northern end is the statue of Grand Prince Volodymyr, who brought Christianity to Rus. The statue marks the place where in 988 the people of Kiev were baptized en masse. The southern end, called the Park of Glory, has an 85-foot (26-metre) granite obelisk rising above the grave of the Unknown Soldier and a memorial garden. Also located in the park are the grave of General Nikolay Vatutin, commander of the Soviet forces that liberated Kiev in 1943, and a rotunda marking the supposed grave of the early Varangian (Viking) chief Askold.
Around these central districts of Kiev stretch extensive suburbs of factories and residential neighbourhoods. As low priority was given to housing during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule, the greater part of these suburbs was built after the Soviet leader's death in 1953. The neighbourhood units, known as microregions, consist of groupings of apartment buildings housing 2,500 to 5,000 people, together with basic services, local shops, a health centre, cinema, and primary school. Since the late 1960s the apartment buildings have usually been of 12 to 20 stories and of prefabricated construction. Most apartments have only two or three rooms, and population densities are therefore high, in the new residential developments as much as in the older central areas. The growing ownership of private cars poses problems in the provision of garage space in these new districts. A feature of development since World War II has been the rapid spread of the city on the low left (eastern) bank of the Dnieper, previously almost devoid of settlement. The left bank is linked to the main part of Kiev by a railway bridge and by the imposing Ye. O. Paton road bridge, which is 4,920 feet (1,500 metres) long and named for its designer.
Between the neighbourhood units are substantial areas of parks and green space. These include the large botanical gardens of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the smaller university botanical gardens (established in the mid-19th century). On the city outskirts are several areas of forest, which are much used for recreation. In the south is the Holosiivsky Park, dominated by deciduous trees, and to the north are nearly 10,000 acres (4,450 hectares) of the Pushcha-Vodytsya Forest Park, mainly covered by coniferous species. A number of factors combine to make Kiev an attractive urban centre—the site, with its sharply contrasted relief and wide views across the Dnieper, the abundance of greenery in and around the city, and the many buildings of historical interest and beauty.
Kiev, as the capital of Ukraine, has major administrative functions, with considerable employment in the offices of ministries responsible for the economy. The city is also an important industrial centre, possessing a wide range of manufactures. Factories are found in all quarters of the city, with major concentrations to the west of the city centre and on the left bank of the Dnieper.
Engineering industries, based on metal from the iron and steel plants of the Dnieper Bend region and the Donets Basin (Donbas) coalfield, take pride of place and include the production of complex machinery and precision tools and instruments. Plants in Kiev make equipment for chemical works, such as conveyor lines for vulcanized rubber, linoleum, and fertilizer factories, and also produce metal-cutting machines. Other engineering products are aircraft, hydraulic elevators, electrical instruments, armatures, river- and seacraft, motorcycles, and cinematography apparatus.
Another important sector is the chemical industry, making resin products, fertilizers, plastics, and chemical fibres, the last at the Darnytsya viscose rayon plant on the left bank. Lumber milling and the making of bricks and reinforced concrete items also are well developed. Consumer goods manufactured include cameras, thermos flasks, knitwear, footwear, a range of foodstuffs, and watches. Kiev is also a large publishing centre.
Power for the many enterprises is supplied by natural gas, piped from Dashava in western Ukraine, and by electricity from the Kiev hydroelectric station on the Dnieper. This station, completed in 1968, is at Vyshhorod, just upstream of the city. Southeast of Kiev is the still more powerful Trypillya thermal electric station.
Transportation for the industries and for the city as a whole is provided by a good network. Trunk railways and all-weather roads link Kiev to Moscow in Russia, to Kharkiv and the Donets Basin in eastern Ukraine, to southern Ukraine and the port of Odessa, and to western Ukraine and Poland. The navigability of the Dnieper has been improved by a series of barrages and reservoirs. Boryspil International Airport operates direct flights to many Ukrainian towns and international service to major cities throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Within Kiev itself there is efficient subway and rail, bus, streetcar, and trolleybus service.
Society and culture
Health and education
The city is well provided with health facilities, including general and specialized hospitals and local polyclinics, the latter serving residential neighbourhoods. A number of nursery schools and day-care centres care for children below school age. In addition to numerous primary schools, there are a large number of general secondary schools, evening schools for adults, and specialist technical schools. The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv University) heads an array of institutions of higher education. A range of research establishments are run by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which also maintains a large library. Kiev is noted for medical and cybernetic research. The emphasis on applied research is illustrated by the academy's renowned Ye. O. Paton Institute of Electrical Welding.
Cultural life
Kiev's ancient tradition as a cultural centre is still vigorously alive. There are several theatres, notably the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine. Plays are presented at the Lesia Ukrainka and Ivan Franko theatres, among other venues. In addition, there are youth, open-air, and musical comedy theatres. Kiev has numerous cinemas; films are produced in a local studio. Concerts are regularly given at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Tchaikovsky Conservatory) and the National Palace of Arts. Some of the most prominent of the city's many museums are the National Historical Museum, the Museum of Russian Art, and the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
Kiev has good facilities for sports and recreation. Among the largest of its several stadiums are the Olympic Stadium, home of the Dynamo Kiev association football (soccer) club, and the Palace of Sports. Olympic Stadium also hosted the final of the 2012 European Championship. Aquatic sports take place on the reservoir of the dam at Vyshhorod and also on Trukhaniv Island in the Dnieper opposite the city centre, where there is a beach and water sports centre. Around the outskirts of the city are health resorts, sanatoriums, and children's holiday camps.
The early period
Origins and foundation
Kiev has a long, rich, and often stormy history. Its beginnings are lost in antiquity. Archaeological findings of stone and bone implements, the remains of primitive dwellings built of wood and skins, and large accumulations of mammoths' bones indicate that the first settlements in the vicinity date from the Late Paleolithic Period (some 40,000 to 15,000 years ago). As early as 3000 bce, Neolithic tribes engaging in agriculture and animal husbandry—notably the Trypillya culture of the mid-5th to 3rd millennium bce—lived on the site of modern Kiev. Excavations continue to uncover many artifacts from settlements dating from the Copper, Bronze, and Iron ages. The tribes of the area traded with the nomadic peoples of the steppes to the south—the Scythians, the Sarmatians, and, later, the Khazars—and also with the ancient Greek colonies that were located on the Black Sea coast.
The traditionally recognized year of Kiev's establishment is 482 ce, and in 1982 the city celebrated its 1,500th anniversary. However, archaeological evidence suggests that the city was founded in the 6th or 7th century. According to the 12th-century chronicle Povest vremennykh let ("Tale of Bygone Years," also known as The Russian Primary Chronicle), Kiev was founded by three brothers, Kyi (Kiy), Shchek, and Khoryv (Khoriv), leaders of the Polyanian tribe of the East Slavs. Each established his own settlement on a hill, and these settlements became the town of Kiev, named for the eldest brother, Kyi; a small stream nearby was named for their sister Lybed (Lebid). Although the chronicle account is legendary, there are contemporary references to Kiev in the writings of Byzantine, German, and Arab historians and geographers.
The first Rus capital
The Varangians (Vikings) seized Kiev in the mid-9th century, and, as in Novgorod to the north, a Slavo-Varangian ruling elite developed. Kiev, with its good defensive site on the high river bluffs and as the centre of a rich agricultural area and a group of early Slavic towns, began to gain importance. About 882 Oleg (Oleh), the ruler of Novgorod, captured Kiev and made it his capital, the centre of the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus. The town flourished, chiefly through trade along the Dnieper going south to the Byzantine Empire and north over portages to the rivers flowing to the Baltic Sea—the so-called "road from the Varangians to the Greeks," or "water road." Trade also went to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.
In 988 the introduction of Christianity to Kiev enhanced its significance as the spiritual centre of Rus. By the 12th century, according to the chronicles, the city's wealth and religious importance was attested to by its more than 400 churches. The cathedral of St. Sophia, parts of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), and the ruins of the Golden Gate remain today as witnesses to Kiev at the height of its splendour. The town was famed for its art, the mosaics and frescoes of its churches, its craftsmanship in silver, and the quality of many of its manufactures. One of Europe's major cities, Kiev established diplomatic relations with the Byzantine Empire, England, France, Sweden, and other countries. Travelers wrote of its population as numbering tens of thousands.
Throughout the period of Kievan Rus, however, the city was engaged in a succession of wars against the nomadic warrior peoples who inhabited the steppes to the south: in turn, the Khazars, the Pechenegs, and the Polovtsians (Kipchak, or Kuman). These conflicts weakened the city, but even greater harm was done by the endless, complex internecine struggles of the princedoms into which Rus was divided. In 1169 Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky of Rostov-Suzdal captured and sacked Kiev. Thus, by the late 12th century the power of the city had declined, and in the following century it was unable to resist the rising and formidable power of the Mongols. In 1238 a Mongol army under Batu, grandson of Genghis Khan, invaded Rus and, having sacked the towns of central Rus, in 1240 besieged and stormed Kiev. Much of the city was destroyed and most of its population killed. The Franciscan friar and traveler Giovanni da Pian del Carpini six years later reported only 200 houses surviving in Kiev.
Kiev under Lithuania and Poland
In the 14th century what was left of Kiev and its surrounding area came under the control of the powerful and expanding grand duchy of Lithuania, which captured it in 1362. For a long time thereafter Kiev had little function except as a fortress and minor market on the vaguely defined frontier between Lithuania and the steppe Tatars, based in the Crimea. It frequently came under attack from the Tatars; in 1482 the Crimean khan, Mengli Giray, took and sacked the town. Almost the only survival of Kiev's former greatness was its role as the seat of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan. A step forward came in 1516, when the grand duke Sigismund I granted Kiev a charter of autonomy, thereby much stimulating trade.
In 1569 the Union of Lublin between Lithuania and Poland gave Kiev and the Ukrainian lands to Poland. Kiev became one of the centres of Orthodox opposition to the expansion of Polish Roman Catholic influence, spearheaded by vigorous proselytization by the Jesuits. In the 17th century a religious Ukrainian brotherhood was established in Kiev, as in other Ukrainian towns, to further this opposition and encourage Ukrainian nationalism. Peter Mogila (Petro Mohyla), a major theologian and metropolitan of Kiev from 1633 to 1646, founded there the Collegium (later the Kievan Mohyla Academy) as a major Orthodox centre of learning in the East Slavic world.
In the 17th century there was also increasing unrest among the Zaporozhian Cossacks of the Dnieper downstream of Kiev and an ever-growing struggle between them and the Polish crown. This eventually culminated in the revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who, assisted by the Crimean Tatars, entered Kiev triumphantly with his insurgent Cossacks in 1649. He came under heavy pressure from the Polish forces, and in 1654 Khmelnytsky and the Cossacks signed the Pereyaslav Agreement, in essence submitting Ukraine to Moscow; this was followed by a prolonged and confused period of strife and destruction leading in 1667 to the Truce of Andrusovo, which confirmed the suzerainty and protection of Moscow over the so-called Left Bank, or the part of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and Kiev (actually located west of the river), while Poland gained the Right Bank, or western Ukraine. Thereafter, further struggle ensued against the Turks, with the Cossacks constantly changing sides and engaging in internecine disputes. In 1686 the Treaty of Eternal Peace between Poland and Russia confirmed Russian control of Kiev, which stood as the sole Muscovite outpost on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Evolution of the modern city
Kiev under the tsars
In 1793 the Second Partition of Poland, under Russian empress Catherine II (the Great), brought Right Bank Ukraine into the Russian Empire, and Kiev, assisted by the abolition in 1754 of the tariff barriers between Russia and the Ukrainian lands, began to grow in commercial importance. Catherine's reign was marked by the abolition of the old administrative system and of the post of Cossack hetman (commander in chief) and by the division of Ukraine into new administrative provinces, for one of which Kiev became the centre. Subsequently, Kiev became the centre of a governor-generalship covering three provinces.
In the first half of the 19th century, Kiev developed as a major focus of Ukrainian nationalism, although severe persecution from the tsarist government forced the movement to shift the brunt of its activities to Lviv in the Austrian-ruled Ukrainian regions. In Kiev, as in Russian cities, there was clandestine revolutionary activity (beginning with the Decembrists in the early 19th century) that culminated in a series of strikes and demonstrations leading to the Russian Revolution of 1905. An important role in this revolutionary movement was taken by students of the University of Kiev (now the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), which had been established in 1834.
During the 19th century the expanding economic importance of Ukraine, and especially the growing export of grain, brought further commercial development to Kiev. Modern factory industry appeared; to the Arsenal, which had been set up as early as the 18th century, were added lumber milling and the building of rivercraft. The town developed significant industries processing agricultural-related products—leather making, tobacco processing, distilling, brewing, and textile production. In the late 1860s Kiev was connected by rail to both Moscow and the Black Sea port of Odessa, further enhancing its role as a centre of industry, commerce, and administration. By the outbreak of World War I, the city had a population of some 350,000.
The revolutionary period
With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917, a revolutionary parliament, the Central Rada ("Council"), was established through the initiative of the Society of Ukrainian Progressives and other cultural, professional, and political associations. Its membership was elected in April 1917 by the constituent All-Ukrainian National Congress. In January 1918 the Central Rada proclaimed an independent Ukrainian state with Kiev as its capital. Minor uprisings by pro-Soviet Bolshevik workers, who were mostly concentrated in the Arsenal works, were suppressed, but Soviet troops under the command of Mikhail Muravev came to their aid and on February 9, 1918, entered Kiev. The occupying troops carried out brutal reprisals against many Ukrainians in the city.
However, by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 3, 1918—which concluded World War I hostilities between the new Soviet government and the Central Powers—the Soviet government recognized the independence of Ukraine. German troops promptly occupied the country and set up a puppet Ukrainian government in Kiev, but it collapsed with the German surrender to the Allies in November 1918 and the subsequent withdrawal of German troops. Once more an independent Ukraine was declared in Kiev, under the leadership of Symon Petlyura, but its brief and stormy history was a series of struggles between Ukrainian nationalist, anti-Bolshevik (White), and Soviet (Red) forces. In November 1919 Kiev was briefly taken by the White armies under Gen. Anton Ivanovich Denikin before being finally occupied by the Red Army. Yet peace was still denied the city, as the Russo-Polish War erupted in the spring of 1920. In May 1920 the Poles captured Kiev but were driven out in a counterattack.
The Soviet period
Kiev's role as the centre for Ukrainian nationalists caused the Soviet government to transfer the capital of the new Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1937) to Kharkiv, and it was not until 1934 that Kiev resumed its capital status. Meanwhile, restoration of the city's shattered economy was undertaken. During the Soviet Five-Year Plans, from 1928 into World War II, new machine tool, electrical, and chemical industries were established. By 1939 the population had reached 846,724.
The German invasion in 1941 again brought severe suffering and destruction to the city. After a fierce 80-day battle, German forces entered it on September 19, 1941. Shortly thereafter, nearly 34,000 Jews were massacred within days in a nearby ravine known as Babi Yar; tens of thousands more Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and other Ukrainians were killed there over the next two years. Many of Kiev's other inhabitants were deported for forced labour and to concentration camps, including almost all the large prewar Jewish population. In 1943 the advancing Soviet troops forded the Dnieper and, after bitter fighting, took Kiev on November 6. The city itself had suffered great destruction, including more than 40 percent of its buildings and some 800 of its industrial enterprises. For Kiev's role in the war, the Soviet government later honoured it with the Order of Lenin, the title of Hero-City, and the Gold Star medal. In the postwar Five-Year Plan, rapid reconstruction was undertaken.
Kiev continued to grow and to strengthen its industrial base during the mid- and late 20th century. On April 25–26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power station some 65 miles (104 km) north of Kiev suffered the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation. Although Communist Party officials were aware of the threat posed by windborne radioactive materials, they did not convey those concerns to the public, and Kiev's annual May Day parade was allowed to proceed as planned. By that time, the wind had shifted, and residents of Kiev were being exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. Elevated levels of radioactive isotopes such as cesium-137 were detected in plants and animals in the surrounding area for decades after the incident.
Kiev in an independent Ukraine
Whereas during the Soviet period Kiev as an international political entity fell largely under the shadow of Moscow, the establishment of an independent Ukraine returned Kiev to the world political stage. Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence on December 1, 1991, but the country struggled to escape Moscow's orbit. Kiev became the centre of the ideological battle between Ukraine's pro-European west and its Russophile east. Tens of thousands took to the streets of the capital to protest widespread fraud and ballot-stuffing in the November 2004 presidential election, in which Russian-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych defeated pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko. Yushchenko, who had narrowly survived an attempted poisoning during the campaign, rallied his supporters in a movement that became known as the Orange Revolution. The Ukrainian Supreme Court overturned the election result, and Yushchenko was victorious in the subsequent rerun.
Another wave of protests rocked Kiev in 2013–14, when Yanukovych, who had succeeded Yushchenko as president, backed out of a planned association agreement with the European Union at the eleventh hour. Pro-EU demonstrators set up a camp in Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square") and occupied city hall. Scores were killed in February 2014 when police and security forces opened fire on crowds of protesters. Downtown Kiev became a battlefield, and the buildings surrounding the Maidan were scorched by petrol bombs. Abandoned by his political allies and under threat of impeachment, Yanukovych fled to Russia, and the protesters, dubbed the Euromaidan movement, ushered in a pro-Western government.
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April 6, 2005
Babson College Sports Information
BABSON PARK, Mass. - Alex Lazar doubled and scored in both the fifth and seventh innings to lead host Babson College to a thrilling 2-1 victory over visiting MIT in the opening game of a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon. The fourth-ranked team in New England, Babson (15-2, 3-1 NEWMAC) then completed the sweep with a convincing 11-2 win in game two.
In a tremendous game one pitching duel between Leah Bogsted and Meg Gaskell, MIT (4-10, 0-4 NEWMAC) jumped on the board first when Bogsted led off the third with a single, moved to second on an error, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt, and then scored on an illegal pitch. The Engineers held the 1-0 lead until the bottom of the fifth, when Lazar doubled to left-center and scored on a clutch two-out double to right by Gaskell.
After Gaskell retired six of the final seven batters she faced, Lazar ripped a double to left with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. Lazar then stole third and attempted to score when catcher Cheryl Texin's throw trickled into left field. Left fielder Elizabeth Gillenwater backed up the play and made a strong throw to the plate, but Lazar managed to dislodge the ball from Texin's glove for the game-winning run.
Gaskell allowed one run on seven hits in the complete-game win for Babson, as she improved to 4-0 on the season. Bogsted pitched will in defeat, giving up one earned run on four hits while striking out five in 6 2/3 innings of work. The rookie also led the Engineers' offense with three hits at the plate.
Babson exploded out of the gate in game two, scoring 10 runs on eight hits and three MIT errors in the first inning. The Engineers scored unearned runs in the fourth and fifth innings, but it would not be enough to prevent the 11-2 Babson victory.


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LAURINBURG, N.C.- Riley Fink deposited the game-winning goal on a pass from Kyle Carnaggio with 1:33 left in overtime to give the St. Andrews Presbyterian College men's lacrosse team a 12-11 Conference Carolinas victory over the Lees-McRae College Bobcats on Saturday.
The Bobcats scored the final four goals of regulation including a game-tying tally by senior Matt Markey with 5.5 seconds left to force the four-minute, sudden-victory period.
Lees-McRae (3-2 Overall, 0-2 Conf.) won the face-off to start overtime and maintained possession for nearly the first two minutes but was unable to get a shot off before St. Andrews (2-6, 1-0) gained control off a Bobcats turnover. On the ensuing possession, Carnaggio made a precise pass from the top of the box to Fink, who was located on the left edge of the goal circle. Fink one-timed the feed from Carnaggio into the back of the net to end the game.
Carnaggio led the Knights with five points including three goals and two assists. Chris Michela followed with four points including his own hat trick and one assist. Fink's game-winner was his lone goal of the day as Michela and Fink are now tied for the team lead with 11 goals on the season.
A quartet of Bobcats scored two goals including junior Landon Guntman and the sophomore trio of Brett Yusiewicz, Derin Vacca, and Josh Shingleton.
Singleton (2G, 2A) and Markey (1 G, 3 A) led Lees-McRae with four points apiece.
After trading the first two goals, St. Andrews pulled out to a 5-1 lead with the final four goals of the first quarter. Harrison Young -- who capped the surge with an interception and fast break goal -- scored the Knights only goal of the second quarter. Lees-McRae scored 3-of-4 goals in the second stanza, shrinking the Bobcats deficit to two (6-4) at halftime.
Lees-McRae continued to rally after the break, stringing together three of the first four goals of the second half to deadlock the score at 7-7 before the Knights closed the period with the next two goals. SAPC then regained its largest lead of the afternoon with a pair of scores in a 14-second outburst to start the fourth. Michela and George Pugh netted the quick goals as SAPC led 11-7 with 13 minutes on the clock.
Guntman started the Bobcats dramatic comeback with a man-up goal at the 8:02 mark. After Vacca and Shingleton scored to pull Lees-McRae to within one, SAPC looked like it would hang on to win when Young caused a Lees-McRae turnover in the final minute with a hard hit that knocked the ball out of bounds. However, St. Andrews was unable to advance on the ensuing possession giving the ball back to the visitors with 16 seconds remaining in regulation. Markey was then able to advance the ball into the offensive zone before he riffled off his game-tying accurate shot from the right flank.
Lees-McRae won 19-of-27 face-offs and held a 44-34 shot advantage and a 32-28 ground ball edge but Knights' goalkeeper Kyle Davitt made a season-high 17 saves to keep St. Andrews in the game. Davitt earned his second collegiate win with his strong play in net.
Bobcats' netminder Mike Fahey was tagged with the loss, allowing the-game winning goal in overtime. Fahey make four saves in 20 minutes of action after relieving Andy Nesdill, who was injured late in the third quarter. Nesdill had eight stops over the first 43 minutes.
The Knights also got goals off the sticks of senior Aren Montgomery (San Antonio, Texas) and freshman Andrew Pike (Dublin, Ohio.). Montgomery and freshman Bobby Murray (Miami, Fla.) each handed out one assist.
Lees-McRae will host nonconference rival Mars Hill College at 4 p.m. Wednesday.


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Casper's Wyoming Medical Center (WMC) nurses and area nurses will soon have the opportunity to advance their degrees in nursing, thanks to a $1 million donation to the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming.
The donation, made by the McMurry Foundation, will increase the opportunities for nurses to earn a bachelor's degree or higher, and it also will extend that opportunity to those with bachelor's degrees in other fields who wish to earn a nursing degree from UW.
For years, UW and WMC (one of the state's largest hospitals) have collaborated to increase educational opportunities for nurses in Wyoming. As the decade moved to a close in 2010, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released nursing goals for 2020, goals that included the increase of BSN-prepared nurses to 80 percent.
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Bulletin, August/September 2009
Inside ASIS&T
ASIS&T Members Electing New Officers and Directors
(Pictures of all candidates at www.asis.org/elections/candidates.html)
Electronic balloting is now open at the ASIS&T website for the election of a president-elect and two directors-at-large. Voting ends on September 30, 2009, with newly elected officers taking their seats on the ASIS&T Board of Directors at the conclusion of the upcoming Annual Meeting in Vancouver.
Candidates for president-elect for 2010 and succession to the presidency in 2011 are Suzie Allard and Linda Smith. Candidates for two director-at-large slots for three-year terms are Caryn Anderson, France Bouthillier, Prudence Dalrymple and Karen Fisher.
Suzie Allard is associate professor and assistant director at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences. Suzie has served on the ASIS&T Board of Directors and on a variety of standing and ad hoc committees (e.g., membership, leadership, information science education, etc.) and has received ASIS&Ts James M. Cretsos Leadership Award. She co-founded SIG/DL and has served on task forces for marketing, digital library development and website redesign. Suzie teaches in the areas of science information and digital libraries. Her research focuses on how scientists use and communicate information, particularly within the life-cycle of electronic data. Agencies that are funding Suzies research include the National Science Foundation, IEEE and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Linda C. Smith is professor and associate dean for academic programs in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, she has worked with colleagues to enhance curricular offerings in digital libraries and data curation and to build a collaborative distance education model through initiatives of the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) consortium. She received the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 1987 and has served ASIS&T in many capacities since joining in 1972: SIG and chapter officer and advisor, award jury member and chair, conference program committee member and chair, member of various standing committees, and editorial positions with both JASIST and ARIST.
Caryn Anderson is the integration research manager for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Her work focuses on developing theory and methods for cross-disciplinary research in the areas of integrating and synthesizing disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, managing what we dont know and translating research into policy and practice change. Caryn was previously doctoral studies program manager at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, where she received her masters degree. She came to information science from public policy analysis and non-profit management. Caryn has held many leadership roles in ASIS&T, including service on standing committees and as chapter and SIG officer. She received the Chapter Member-of-the-Year Award in 2007 and the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 2006.
France Bouthillier is associate professor and director of the school of information studies, McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, her masters in library and information sciences from the Université de Montréal, and she graduated from the University of Quebec in Education and Business Administration. Her teaching areas are related to the management of information services, business information and competitive intelligence. Her recent publications and conference presentations deal with the information needs of small businesses, knowledge management, management of information services, training of information professionals and competitive intelligence. She has worked on program committees for several ASIS&T Annual Meetings and as a reviewer for JASIST for a number of years.
Prudence Dalrymple is on the faculty of the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University where she also directs the Institute for Healthcare Informatics. She holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a masters degree in health sciences informatics from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has also been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the director of accreditation at the American Library Association and served as dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. Pru attended her first ASIS&T meeting in 1976 as a student and has been an active participant in conferences, committees and SIG/HFIS. She has served on several award juries and standing committees. She is a member of the ASIS&T Task Force on the Information Professional where she is a key participant in the task forces activities.
Karen Fisher is professor in the University of Washington Information School and chair of the Information & Society Center (ISC). She teaches and conducts research on how people experience information as part of everyday life. Frequent author, she is currently studying the benefits of free access to computers and the Internet in public libraries, supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Karen holds Ph.D. and MLIS degrees from University of Western Ontario and a bachelors degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previously, she chaired the UW iSchools Master of Library and Information Science program, was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and a visiting professor at Oslo University College, Norway. Her ASIS&T activities include leadership activities in SIG/USE, service on the search committee for the JASIST editor and on the program committees for two Annual Meetings.
For more information about the candidates and their position statements for the offices they seek, please visit the ASIS&T website. All current ASIS&T members with voting privileges are invited to visit
www.asis.org/elections/index.html for full information on the electronic balloting process.
ASIS&T Announces New Awards for Historical Study
The advisory board of the ASIS&T History Fund, established by the ASIS&T Board in June 2000 to support and encourage research and publication in the history of information science and technology, has announced the establishment of two new awards: ASIS&T History Fund Research Grant Award and ASIS&T History Fund Research Paper Award. Both awards will be available for the first time this year.
The Research Grant Award will honor the best research support proposal submitted by September 1. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology may be proposed. A maximum of $1000 will be awarded; all funds must be expended by August 31, 2010.
The Research Paper Award, maximum of $500, will honor the best paper submitted by September 1. Again, all topics relevant to the history of information science and technology will be considered.
The History Fund Advisory Board will review all submissions and determine if an award will be made. Members of the Advisory Board are Robert V. Williams, chair; Michael Buckland, vice chair; Trudi B. Hahn, Ben-Ami Lipitz and Samantha Hastings.
For more information on ASIS&T awards, visit the ASIS&T website at www.asis.org.
2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Thriving on Diversity Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World
November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting is fast approaching. Make sure youve marked your calendar. Check your mailbox for a printed version of the preliminary program; or go online for an electronic version. Registration forms are available in both formats. Make your travel plans now. We all look forward to a large crowd in Vancouver. See you there.
News from ASIS&T Chapters
Gregory Hutton, student in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, is the winner of the 2009 NEASIS&T Best Paper in Information Science Award from the New England ASIS&T chapter. Huttons paper, Scientific Grey Literature in a Digital Age: Measuring Its Use and Influence in an Evolving Information Economy, earns him up to $1000 to help defray costs of attending the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Vancouver.
Jury members Maureen ODrisceoil and Patricia Baudoin noted that Huttons paper is extremely well-written, providing good explanations for a very dense topic. . . [H]e describes his project clearly, packs a lot into a few pages and reaches a conclusion.
News about ASIS&T Members
Three ASIS&T members will join the faculty of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia for the 2009-10 academic year. Eric Meyers, Lisa Nathan and Aaron Loehrlein will come in as assistant professors. Eric and Lisa, both graduating from the University of Washington, arrived on campus this summer. Aaron will complete his studies at Indiana University and join the staff in January 2010.
Amanda Spink, research capacity building professor of information science at Queensland University of Technology, has been appointed editor of the Emerald Library and Information Science book series, succeeding retiring editor Bert Boyce of Louisiana State University. The Emerald Library series publishes scholarly books on leading edge issues and broad research areas of library and information science.
Amy Wallace, formerly head of public services and outreach, California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), has been named dean of the University Library. She succeeds Paul Adalian who has retired. In her new role she will guide strategic and operational planning for the library and seek innovative ways to foster information literacy, expand the librarys collection and maximize the use of technology. Wallace has been with CSUCI since June 2003. She previously held library positions at the University of California, San Diego; The Claremont Colleges; and Chapman University.
Paul Wasserman
Paul Wasserman, professor emeritus and founding dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, passed away May 8, 2009, following a period of ill health. He was 85 years old.
Wasserman took the post of dean of the School of Library and Information Services in January 1965, shortly after the school was formally approved. Beginning without faculty, curriculum or students, he built a new interdisciplinary school by recruiting an engineer, a physicist and an industrial psychologist, among others, to be the first faculty. By the time the first student graduated in 1966, the program was fully accredited by the American Library Association. He led the design of the doctoral program, which admitted its first students in 1967. He left the deanship in 1970 and returned to a fulltime faculty position.
Wasserman was well known for his contributions to library administration. He lectured and consulted internationally, frequently working on programs to educate library administrators in developing countries. He lent his professional expertise to projects in more than two dozen countries and was admired and respected by library educators and practitioners throughout the world.
Wasserman is survived by his wife Krystyna Wasserman, son Steven Wasserman, daughter Jacqueline Monroe and grandchildren. Cards and notes may be sent to the Wasserman family c/o College of Information Studies, 4105 Hornbake Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
E.J. Josey
E.J. Josey, library civil rights activist, administrator, author and educator, died on July 3 in North Carolina. He was 85 years old. Best known in the library world for his successful efforts to integrate state library associations and his challenges to ALA members to adopt policies and procedures that would improve the conditions for minorities in librarianship, he also held a series of prominent administrative and faculty positions at institutions around the country.
Josey was professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Before joining the Pitt faculty, he held several New York State government positions in library development. He also headed the library at Savannah State University; directed the library at Delaware State College; and served on the staff of Columbia University Library, Free Library of Philadelphia and New York Public Library.
A foundation has been set up to honor his life and work: The E.J. Josey Foundation for Justice and Peace, 526 West Second Street, Washington, NC 27889.
Articles in this Issue
The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)
The Debut of Usable, Influential Content
Gaming the Design: Using Game Design Techniques in the Realm of Investing
Lessons from the Slime Mold: How to Survive and Thrive in Ever-Changing Organizational Environments
A Reflection on the Structure and Process of the Web of Data
What's New? Selected Abstracts from JASIST
Inside ASIS&T


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Finally, A Game Worthy of Dikembe Mutumbo
It's an old wives tale that dates back to the late 1980's when Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, with his Doctoral aspirations, threw open the door to a frat party on the Georgetown campus with a six-pack in very long arm, and exclaimed "WHO WANTS TO SEX MUTUMBO!" After years of dominant, defensive-minded basketball, and 6 strong children each legendary in their own right, it is sad to say that no one was ever up to the task of truly sexing Mutumbo. Or so we thought. Dikembe Mutubmo's 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World is proof that the Old Spice brand along with a few lucky game designers indeed were able to sex Mount Mutumbo, and the offspring is this brilliant episodic Flash game. So far only the first of five chapters are available, with additional chapters unlocking in the coming weeks. You see, Dikembe's journey coincides with the coming of the end of the world, as foretold by the Mayan calendar, and only by changing the path of history will his journey be complete.
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The Empire Strikes Dodger Stadium
No, not the Padres…though as the first place team at the moment, they are kind of like the evil empire right now.
We're talking about tomorrow night's promotion which I'm sure you've all heard about, but there's a really funny Jib Jab video that utilizes a few of our players. The My Town section is completely sold out, there are still tickets left for other areas of the stadium, where fans will get the poster that you see at the same link.
It's actually pretty cool that what started as a simple request to use Yoda on our billboards has turned into a great relationship with the Lucas Films people (and the Yoda billboard actually won an advertising award). There are a lot of Dodger fans who like Star Wars and vice versa, so hopefully some of you fall into that category. It's also sparked other similar relationships with the people at SpongeBob and Phineas and Ferb and for any of you with kids, you know how big those characters are with your little ones.
Otherwise, just another busy day at the stadium. We actually had a news conference here for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau, where this guy performed a song. If you haven't seen this yet, you'll be amazed at his voice. He's up to almost 7 million hits on youtube and he was extolling the virtues of visiting Taiwan, as were James Loney, Jamey Carroll, Xavier Paul and Hong-Chih Kuo. By the way, if you missed all the videos from our trip to Taiwan back in March, you can check them out here (keyword Taiwan).
OK, that's three video links in one blog post, which I think is probably a record for Inside the Dodgers. So, we'll end the post now.
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My friend Julie who is a big STar War fan will be there. She is a St Louis Cardinal fan but I don't hold it against her 🙂
Well, Is time to head to Blue Heaven on Earth!
Let's go Kershaw!
Let's go Dodgers!
Lineup tonight:
Garrett has replaced Manny. God help the Dodgers.
All I have to say is "Crap"!
i am really getting tired of seeing Dewitt in the starting lineup.
He is not producing. Do we have another option. Why don't they play Belliard more often.
Does this mean the FARCE is with Frank?
Dewitt not producing, have you forgot two triples the other night.
what bugs me is that sponge bob anderson is in the game, we would be better off to have phineas and ferb to play the OF and PH. Geez has the death star landed outside chavez ravine yet?
Good evening ITD boys and girls!
Well, we all know the streak couldn?t last forever. I?m just glad that they were able to make it to 9 wins in a row!
***Note to Josh***
It?s been a while, but I?m going to the Saturday night game on June 5 against Atlanta with my mom! Perhaps this time I?ll REALLY be there! No, I will be there! ? I will DEFINITELY let you know if I get hung up again and can?t make it. I would LOVE TO see you again on June 5th!
Wow, I see the ITD time warp is alive and well…
Time check 🙂
7:05 pm, pst.
Well, I am in PST still……
My Nellygirl!!!
Great to see ya!!! I' know, I know. I've been scarce lately. So how are things in Nor Cal these days???
Well,my computer is acting up again. I'll catch up with y'all later…
no i did not forget the two triples. I have been watching all the games. He got lucky that the outfielder did not catch those balls, a better defensive player would have caught those balls. He is not hitting the ball solid. I would not be so frustrated, if i saw him hit the ball hard. But he is not making solid contact. Thats my frustration.
Hiya Everybody
Hope last night's loss was just a blip and we start over again to night on another winning streak. I think it's tough without Andre' and Manny but another good outing from Kershaw should makeup for that.
The Padres are but mere Jawas. (Maybe even Dink-Dinks)
Everyone knows that the New York American League Baseball Club is the Evil Empire.
And yet, we have forked-tongued, tin-earred Palpatine for an owner, poised to crush our beloved Dodger Republic and assimilate them into stormtroopers like every other franchise, poised to serve the Evil Empire (reminder: NY AL Baseball Club)
Our Blue Rebels still fight for the side of good… can they win it all before Ned and Frank execute order 66?
(Yeah, tons of contradictions here, but you know what I'm getting at)
To quote another franchise whose FO has been taking hits in the media: Just Win, Baby.
Because if we don't, the natives will grow restless.
Woo-hoo, North!!!!!!!
And as far as Dewitt is concerned, I think he is doing quite well. Yes, his fielding at 2B isn?t the slickest thing we?ve seen, but then again, there aren?t that many slick fielding 2Bmen and Orlando Hudson. And I do believe his defensive play will only get better with more experience. Plus, DeWitt?s offensive production is good. No, he?s not lighting up the storm like he did early in 2008, but remember, he was a bit of an unknown commodity at the time. I think Blake has performed admirably.
And as for GA, I thought all along that GA would spell Manny in the late innings as a defensive change, late in the game. Perhaps get spot starts, but mainly be the lefty off the bench. I though Reed Johnson would get the majority of the starts that Manny and now, Andre don?t start.
We can do it!
Pulverize those Jawas!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A Tale Of Two Dodgers!!!!!!
Nice job Blake & Blake and Jamie.
Nice job Carroll!!!
Nice pickoff.
Nice goin' GA
By the way, I've done a (very) little research and am going to be the first ITDer to predict when the Time Warp reaches an even hour. Matt's 18th birthday, May 22, 2010 @ 5:06PM Pacific.
By dodgereric on February 7, 2010 3:02 PM
Drat. Missed it by two days.
Isn't that just perfect? I go and brag about my 1-hour Warp prediction 3 – 1/2 months ago and now I'm not even in the Warp! LMAO!!
Hey, OBF! Counting this one, how many GEMS has Kershaw pitched this year?
Great job KERSH his 4th GEM this year.
No win for Timmy again abd look like bochy had Timmy batting 8th an always seem weird when a pitcher bat 8th. What the hell Belliard over Dewitt I don't think so? I want Belliard over Carroll but Carroll is actually hitting good.
Yeah Belisario struck out the side after the singled
Hey CP!!!! I am doing good. I was at Andre's Bobblehead night on Tuesday. I thought for sure you would be there. How are you?
Time check 🙂
9:31 pm, pst.
I'm waiting for the Stairs vs Broxton matchup.
Great Stuff NSB!!!!!!!
Hey Jhall!!!!!
Ohhh Ward Dear – I am right here!!! LMAO!!!! Boy, I leave my phone for a half hour and a search party is practically called out. I had messages on my phone, on facebook and my hubby came home asking why I wasn't answering my phone.
So, Dodgereric, can we officially say ITD is one hour ahead?
May 20, 9:38 pm, pst
shhhhhh!!!! the dbacks just went ahead of the gnats………….GO DBACKS!!!
Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Johnny!!!!!
I hate fielder's indifference. I haven't seen much of those when Broxton pitching this year.
I guess that was Kershaw that started the 8th so I guess Belasario had 2 of the 3 k's in that inning.
I've been waiting for this matchup.
What does Johnny say boys and girls?
Fu Qy'all!!!!
Holy crap is a miracle I knew Broxton was going to get him.
Way to go Kersh!!!! ……….and thanks to the bullpen for finishing it up!!! Great job to Jamey Carroll too!!!!
Nice win boys!!!!
Rockies' Jimenez now 8-1, ERA at 0.99
After we beat him he keep on winning.
We just moved into 2nd place by the dbacks sending the gnats packing.
We're in 2nd place.
Yes we are OBF!!!!!!
lol Giants fans think they was going to have an easy time with the dback and that bullpen.
Reds were up 9-3 in the 9th and the Braves scored 7 runs with a walk off PH grand slam by Conrad.
Stadium Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Attendance 40,138 (71.7% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
Stadium Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Attendance 38,856 (69.4% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
lol seriously that many people to show up to see an Ortiz game last night and a Kershaw game gets 38,856 tonight
I love how we got Sweeney for free lol. Yeah free because the guy we traded him for Denker is batting .367 with a .650 slg.
It's really kind of nice right now being a Dodger fan in gnat country. It's nice to be over one hurdle. The next one is stepping right over the Padres back into our rightful spot, which is first place.


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Second Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 06/01/1997, Docket: RP97-165-003, Status: Effective
Sub. First Revised Sheet No. 110 Sub. First Revised Sheet No. 110 : Superseded
Superseding: FIRST REVISED SHEET NO. 110
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (continued)
6.2 Remedies for non-payment: Should Shipper fail to pay all of
the amount of any invoice as herein provided when such amount
is due, interest on the unpaid portion of the invoice shall
accrue from the due date until the date of payment at the
interest rate calculated according to Section 154.67(c)(2) of
the FERC's regulations. If such failure to pay continues for
thirty (30) days after payment is due and Transporter has
provided Shipper and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
with at least fifteen (15) days notice that service will
terminate due to the non-payment, Transporter in addition to
any other remedy it may have under the executed Services
Contract may suspend further delivery of gas until such amount
is paid. Provided, however, that if Shipper in good faith
shall dispute the amount of any such invoice or part thereof
(and provides Transporter written documentation as to the
basis for the dispute) and shall pay to Transporter such
amounts as it concedes to be correct and at any time
thereafter within thirty (30) days of a demand made by
Transporter shall furnish good and sufficient surety bond,
guaranteeing payment to Transporter of the amount ultimately
found due upon such invoices after a final determination which
may be reached either by agreement or judgment of the courts,
as may be the case, then Transporter shall not be entitled to
seek or suspend further delivery of gas unless and until
default be made in the conditions of such bond.
6.3 Adjustment of underpayment, overpayment or error in invoicing:
If it shall be found that Shipper has been overcharged or
undercharged in any form whatsoever under the provisions of the
executed Service Contract, and Shipper shall have actually paid
the invoices containing such overcharge or undercharge, then
within thirty (30) days after the final determination thereof,
Transporter shall refund the amount of any such overcharge with
interest thereon from the time such overcharge was paid to the
date of refund the interest rate calculated according to
Section 154.67(c)(2) of FERC's regulations and Shipper shall
pay the amount of any such undercharge, but without interest.


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Cars that jiggle you awake or alert you when you drive out of your lane represent just the beginning of technological changes that will make car accidents less common and, eventually, change how car insurance is priced, bought and sold, say industry analysts.
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A recent article in Insurance & Technology magazine, "The Reshaping of Auto Insurance" by Marik Brockman and Anand Rao of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), reviews several trends that they believe will significantly transform the way car insurance works.
These trends include:
1. Risk shifting: Advanced technologies such as telematics, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, lane detection systems and automatic braking will shift responsibility for accidents from driver error to mechanical malfunction. (See: "As economy sinks, pay-as-you-go insurance soars.")
"In turn, this would shift the key buyer from the end-consumer to the car manufacturer, and fundamentally change the entire value chain, from product definition to pricing, marketing, distribution, underwriting, service, and claims," says the report. In this scenario, carriers would sell policies either at the dealership, or perhaps try to increase market share by "co-marketing with the manufacturer and/or dealer," says the report. (See: "Cars to predict red-light runners soon?")
2. Risk sharing: Social networking creates new pools of drivers to share group discounts.
"There are new carriers that combine social networking with insurance by connecting customers to form insurance networks that promise significantly lower premiums. These carriers claim that their models allow insurers to access new customers virally, decrease process costs and reduce claim ratios," according to the report. While, on the one hand, this represents the potential for lower rates for more groups, it also could make insurance more affordable for some and therefore lead to more insured drivers say the authors.
3. Risk slicing: The growth of car sharing, which means more car insurance policies that will follow a pay-per-use model instead of 24/7 coverage.
The increase in car sharing suggests a future in which many premiums move from 24-hour asset coverage to a pay-per-use model, according to the authors. The North American car-sharing market could surpass 4.4 million members and $3 billion by 2016, the report says, citing Frost & Sullivan research published in March 2012. More low-frequency drivers likely equates to at least some reduction in individual premiums. (See: "Hello, stranger! Here's my car keys.")
"However, this scenario does not necessarily represent only lost premiums," says the report. "Most of the people who do not choose to own cars will need to rent them at least occasionally; accordingly, car sharing can expand the market for alternative buyers of insurance."
4. Risk reduction: Driverless cars, which will require an entirely new model of insurance coverage based on the vehicle rather than the driver.
"Unlike the above scenarios that represent significant change but not necessarily extreme disruption to the insurance industry, driverless cars equipped with the latest awareness technologies could completely change the industry as we know it," says the report. Google's driverless vehicles have logged over 300,000 miles without an accident. Driverless cars are now legal on California roadways, and Google's U.S. spending on advocacy of driverless vehicles exceeded $9 million in just the first half of 2012, according to the report. (See: "Nevada bets on driverless cars, California's dreamin' of them")
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Based on these technological changes, Brockman, a partner with PwC, says he anticipates that many of the larger companies that provide auto insurance now will develop innovative insurance products that will be similar to product liability coverage.
"Some of the larger insurance companies already have a commercial insurance business, so we expect them to find creative ways to offer auto insurance for different types of vehicles, drivers and devices," says Brockman.
Insurance technology analyst Donald Light said in a blog post on the report: "If and when liability for many accidents shifts to the manufacturers of the automobiles (and/or the on-board equipment); it is likely that the frequency of accidents will be significantly lower, leading to lower losses, and lower premiums for auto insurers. So change is coming for auto insurers in terms of business and operating models. The big question is how quickly."
Robert Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, thinks eventually individuals will not actually buy car insurance at all. Instead, a limited policy to pay for medical bills will come with a car purchase or lease. If an accident occurs, the insurance companies of the individual vendors will have to determine which feature failed and will be responsible for repairs or replacing the vehicle.
"It will take a long time, but I think 20 years from now car insurance will look totally different than it looks today," says Hunter. "Once driverless cars come into use there will naturally be less car accidents because the car won't get drunk or speed or get distracted by a pretty girl walking by. At that point, accidents will be caused by a manufacturing or installation error rather than driver error."
Why are so many discounts for outdated safety technology?
In the meantime, many vehicles already have safety features such as automatic brakes that stop your car from hitting another, rear-view cameras that prevent collisions when drivers are backing up and systems that alert you when you swerve into the wrong lane. You may pay a lower rate if you drive a car equipped with such high-tech systems. Yet not all insurance companies offer discounts for these features, though they typically do for more outdated items such as airbags and anti-lock brakes.
"Insurance companies are always a little bit behind," says Hunter. "There's a bit of a herd instinct there, so most of the car insurance companies will wait for one of the big ones like State Farm to offer a discount for a particular feature before they'll do it. At the same time, these companies legitimately want to gather data and make sure this stuff really works before they start promoting them and offering discounts on them."
Brockman says that some of the more advanced insurance carriers will monitor tests on auto safety features in advance and will offer their customers discounts earlier than others. (See: "Will insurers soon pay us not to speed?")
"Discounts for specific features follow a timeline that correlates with the release of a new product, followed by increasing customer adoption and increasing promotion of the product," says Brockman. "There's just a little lag time before discounts become available for new features."
The original article can be found at Insurance.com:Is your car insurance going the way of the landline?


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Across the board, public club companies and manufacturers saw growth in their revenue this year.
Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, grew its revenue and its net income by 10.7 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively, in the first nine months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. Life Time also increased its revenue expectations for the year to $1 billion to $1.005 billion. The company opened three new clubs this year and plans to open three new clubs next year, including its first in Canada, as it also eyes expansion on the East Coast.
Town Sports International (TSI), New York, also saw revenue and net income increases for the first nine months of the year. TSI enjoyed its biggest leap in net income, going from a net loss of $1.6 million to $3.1 million. The company opened two new clubs in the fourth quarter of 2011 and is targeting three new opens in the second half of 2012.
Manufacturers enjoyed a prosperous year as well. Cybex, Medway, MA, increased net sales by 17 percent in the first nine months this year compared to the previous period. Johnson Health Tech Inc., Cottage Grove, WI, makers of Matrix Fitness, among other brands, had a sales increase of 27 percent for the first three quarters compared to the prior year's first three quarters. Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL, parent company of Life Fitness and Hammer Strength, had a 14 percent growth in sales for those two brands in third quarter 2011, and its operating earnings are at their highest levels since 2006. Precor, Woodinville, WA, the fitness division of parent company Amer Sports, Helsinki, Finland, increased commercial business sales by 12 percent in third quarter 2011.


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Since I had a hard time getting my Laptop working with Arch (especially sound drivers) I decided to write this wiki entry to make it easier for people with the same problem. I may expand it later, but the SPDI/F ports took me like three days, so here we go.
MD stands for "Medion", that brand you can buy PCs at ALDI from.
Warning: This should be actually the right way, but on my machine I get no sound at all. I'll edit this, when I found a working solution (with some additional steps)
This Notebook has a Realtek ALC 833 soundcard. To get your S/PDIF ports working, add
options snd-hda-intel model=medion
to /etc/modprobe.conf
Also my /etc/modprobe.d/sound looks like this (I'm not sure whether this will help you):
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
There are two possible drivers you can use for the Nvidia 6150 Geforce Go. I recommend the non-free driver, because the open one had no mouse cursor as I tried it (which was really annoying). If you want 3d-allocation, you must use the closed source one.
nv (free driver)
pacman -Sy nv
Here's no customized xorg.conf yet. Go make one yourself following this guide and post it here.
nvidia (non-free driver)
pacman -Sy nvidia
Note: The xorg.conf is based on this one which was made for gentoo (see here for more information).
Save the following as /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Driver "synaptics" Option "Name" "Synaptics Touchpad" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "SHMConfig" "true" Option "LeftEdge" "1900" Option "RightEdge" "5900" Option "TopEdge" "1900" Option "BottomEdge" "4350" Option "FingerHigh" "25" Option "FingerLow" "20" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180" Option "MinSpeed" "0.04" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "AccelFactor" "0.001" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "100" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0" Option "RTCornerButton" "0" Option "RBCornerButton" "0" Option "LTCornerButton" "2" Option "LBCornerButton" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "LPL" HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 VertRefresh 60.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce Go 6150" Option "NVAgp" "3" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "Coolbits" "1" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "TripleBuffer" "true" Option "NoLogo" "1" Option "DPMS" "TRUE" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "metamodes" "1280x800 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection


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I support the Portland City Council's decision this week to ban polystyrene food containers and mandate a five-cent surcharge on non-reusable grocery bags. I just wish the councilors had been more honest about their intentions and their own responsibility for the problems these things cause.
The foam ban and bag fee have been primarily promoted by city officials as a way to curb litter. But as I noted in a column last January, much of the litter on Portland's streets originates at the curb, when residents put their lidless recycling bins outside in windy weather. And even when the wind is calm, the contents of the city's often over-stuffed blue bins get upended by scavengers and escape when collection crews are less-than-completely conscientious about ensuring that every item in the bin makes it into the truck.
Other communities (South Portland, for example), solve this by simply providing a larger, lidded container for recyclables. Portland supposedly has a pilot program in the works to do the same, but it clearly hasn't been given priority over the ban and bag-fee ordinances, which consumed two years' worth of administrative effort.
In any case, reducing litter is one of the weaker arguments in support of the ordinances. The least persuasive point in favor of the ban and fee that I read was the comment by Will Everitt of Friends of Casco Bay, who asked councilors to consider the $628 million of annual economic activity associated with that body of water — as if some plastic bags floating in the bay were a serious threat to the tourism and fishing industries. This is not to say such litter is harmless (it's not), but that's the kind of reasoning that understandably makes opponents of the measures roll their eyes.
I was also disappointed to read the comment by a Casco Bay High School student who pointed out that polystyrene remains in "our landfills" for hundreds of years. I recently attended an afternoon of presentations on environmental issues by other CBHS students — which Councilor Ed Suslovic, a lead promoter of the ordinances, also attended — during which many students made similar points about local landfill capacity.
For the record, communities throughout Cumberland County, including Portland, send their trash to ecomaine's facility on Blueberry Road, where it's incinerated to produce electricity and ash. The ash is sent to an "ashfill" on the South Portland/Scarborough line that's not expected to reach capacity for another quarter-century. Plus, polystyrene, which is almost entirely comprised of air, generates an insignificant percentage of the ash ecomaine buries. While it's nice that students at this much-lauded expeditionary high school know how to make PowerPoint presentations, it's appalling that they don't know where their garbage goes and that no teachers (or city councilors, for that matter) apparently care to tell them.
This ignorance of the basic facts of our ecosystem and the products we use is the real reason Portland's new ban and fee laws are important. In and of itself, the extra nickel for grocery bags is insignificant compared with the effect the fee will have on our conscience as consumers. The measures passed this week are opening salvos in what I hope will be a sustained counteroffensive against our "throwaway culture."
The 100 billion plastic bags Americans use and toss every year are one of the most obvious examples of our pervasive wastefulness. There are hundreds more, from water bottles to excessive packaging to my personal pet peeve: leaf blowers. (For Christsake, people, get a rake! Do we really need to burn fossil fuel to move leaves around the lawn?)
The plastic bags and Styrofoam cups that litter our streets and waterways are unsightly, but it's the invisible byproducts of their manufacture and incineration that are the real problem: the toxic chemicals and global-warming gases produced in every step of the process. The city officials behind the ban and fee should not have been shy about addressing the larger, less localized reasons motivating these ordinances, because those are the reasons why these efforts must be expanded state- and nationwide.
Speaking of honesty, I must admit that I've never used a reusable shopping bag at the grocery store. I recycle the bags I get from Hannaford, but I'm under no illusion that this really makes much of a difference. The Portland fee won't affect me directly (my local grocery store is in Kennebunk), but reading (and writing) about this issue has prompted me to try to change my habits by putting a few reusable bags in the car for future shopping runs. Wherever you live, I encourage you to do the same.


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Front - 27 x 9 x 14 in. (68.6 x 22.9 x 35.6 cm)
Rear - 27 x 11 x 14 in. (68.6 x 27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Lockable rear differential and Visco-Lok QE auto-locking front differential
Assistance - Electronic hill descent control
Lighter type DC outlet in console (20A)
Gauge - Multifunction Digital: Speedometer, tachometer, odometer, trip and hour meters, fuel, gear position, seat belt, diagnostics, clock, auto shut off
Dynamic Power Steering (DPS)
Wheel - Adjustable Tilt
6 Person capacity
Dual VERSA-PRO bench seats with passenger seats flipping up, underside hooks and contoured bench to improve entrance / exit of the cab
Front - Double A-arm; 10 in. (25.4 cm) travel
Rear - TTA-HD with external sway bar; 10 in. (25.4 cm) travel
Front / Rear Shocks - Twin tube gas charged
Payload - 1,750 lb. (793.8 kg)
Tailgate - 250 lb. (113.4 kg)
Total - 11.1 gal (42.1 l)
Under dash - 6 gal (22.8 l)
Dash - 1.8 gal (6.9 l)
Water-resistant and removable toolbox - 1.7 gal (6.3 l)
Armrests and cup holders - 1.6 gal (6.1 l)
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