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Ben Roethlisberger is heading to a meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York knowing that he isn't going to be prosecuted in relation to what went on in a Georgia bar in March. He's hardly making the trip without baggage, however.
Milledgeville, GA District Attorney Fred Bright was very careful in laying out the facts of the case to make it clear that he wasn't avoiding a trial simply because of Roethlisberger's celebrity. The story Bright told was damning to Roethlisberger: Apparently not enough for Bright to feel confident about getting a conviction, but enough to make sure that this story won't be forgotten with a little bit of time and distance.
Tuesday morning brought more unsavory allegations to the public's attention and all of that, plus the Tahoe case from 2009, will be following Big Ben into the conference room where Goodell is waiting.
When he enters that room, he'll find the commissioner painted into a corner. Roethlisberger has escaped legal penalties for any of his alleged behavior, but repeated claims of sexual misconduct put the league, the Steelers and Roethlisberger in a terrible light. That was the same rationale that led to suspensions for Pacman Jones and Larry Johnson before they'd been formally convicted of crimes and it is the linchpin of the Personal Conduct Policy that Goodell has put into place for players in the NFL.
That's why Goodell is caught in the corner and why he's going to have to do more than simply shake his fist at Roethlisberger behind closed doors. Otherwise, he'll face questions about why Roethlisberger gets treated differently than Jones and why Goodell doesn't apply the same burdens to all players across the board.
Simply put, if black players get treated and punished differently than white players, or if they are perceived to be treated differently, it will open up an entirely different and more uncomfortable can of worms for Goodell, team owners and the league as a whole.
Unless the Steelers bail him out by imposing their own team suspension on Roethlisberger, Goodell has to act to keep up the appearance of fairness and accountability that he has imposed on the league and the players since taking office.
Goodell could have avoided all of this by simply employing a system that only punished players as a result of criminal conviction, something that would have thrilled many players and the union, but he chose a more arbitrary track. He can't pull the brakes simply because Roethlisberger has fallen in front of the engine or the whole thing will go flying off the tracks.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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These posts are targetted for an audience with some knowledge of programming language design principles. You should be lightly familiar with both systems programming languages such as C++ and with functional languages such as Haskell or ML, and preferably strongly skilled in at least one or the other domain.
Do feel free to skip ahead, if you're already familiar with parts of the language, or to bail out early, if you're not interested in an involved tour of concurrency primitives. All the same, I hope you get something out of some or all of these posts.
- Primer - an introduction to the language's syntax, memory model, and concurrency model
- Linked Task Failure - advanced parallel programming and error handling with tasks (my first project)
- Typesafe Shared State - an overview of the region system and a parallelism library that makes heavy use of it
- Typesafe Shared Mutable State - using trickery with Rust's type system to achieve a completely safe interface for common concurrency idioms (my second project)
- Rust's strong static type system relieves programmers from worrying about many types of errors they should never have to. NULL pointer crashes, memory management errors, surprising implicit type coercions, and dynamic cast exceptions don't exist anymore. Meanwhile, features like closures and higher-order functions (missing in C++ (until very recent versions)), algebraic datatypes and parametric polymorphism (both missing in Go), and traits (existential types; a combination of haskell-style typeclasses and OO-style interfaces) allow you to concisely express ideas that would otherwise involve a lot of legwork in certain "conventional" languages.
- Unlike other functional languages, however, Rust has heavy focus on performance as well. Stack-allocated data lets you often avoid dynamic allocation overhead and garbage collection (even closures can sometimes be entirely on the stack). The region system and borrow checker allow for type-and-memory-safe aliasing of arbitrary data with no runtime overhead. Explicit copyability as part of the type system lets you be aware of when expensive copies might occur.
- Finally (and this is the big one, for me), Rust's type system includes a concurrency-aware memory model. Forbidding unprotected shared state and using message-passing over pipes as the main communication mechansim means programmers no longer have to worry about data races, and is also friendly to massively-parallel applications where cache-line contention is a serious worry. The use of noncopyable types means the message-passing library can safely assume all communication will be one-to-one, which allows for a blazing fast implementation under the hood. Noncopyable types also give other strong guarantees, such as the safety of ARCs and the fact that two tasks cannot deadlock when communicating over a single pipe.

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Bonney Lassie Garden Blogger at Boreas Inn
August 4, 2016 by: Susan Goldsmith
We were delighted to host The Bonney Lassie Garden Blogger aka Alison Conliffe and her husband Nigel at Boreas last weekend. They hail from Bonney Lake although Nigel, is originally from the U.K. as most Nigels are! 🙂 The Bonney Lassie got to meet my friend and her fellow Garden Blogger Skyler Walker aka Tangly Cottage and met Skyler's husband Allen and toured Skyler's glorious gardens at her home in Ilwaco. Skyler blogs about our gardens frequently, taking images of particular areas from "before" to "after" so you can actually see the work in progress. Bonney Lassie took all "after" pictures which was refreshing to see someone else's interpretation of the "finished product". And yes, it is September and the gardens have passed their "sell by" date, but are still looking quite beautiful compared to most other years, when they are fading earlier in the season.
I think this year the gardens are more vital because they are stuffed with gorgeous perennials, thanks to Skyler and also to my own attempted concentration on limiting the annuals, the "color spots", for which I have a great weakness, to only pots on the decks and my flower boxes. But also, because I have never enjoyed my own gardens more, I am taking better care of them than usual and have watered and fertilized more often and will continue to do so until I can no longer prolong the inevitable. I replanted the kitchen window box yesterday, removed the overgrown, leggy violas and planted mums and colorful "winter" pansies.


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Long before the late Wally Parks created the National Hot Rod Association in 1951, Southern California was defined by its relationship with cars, speed, competition and the quarter-mile.
In fact, previous to Parks founding the sanctioning body that helped moved the sport from the streets to safer tracks, Parks and wife Barbara actually conducted races on an abandoned air field in north Fontana. Gilfilan Field was never a major drag strip of the day, but it played a major role in establishing a discipline still running strong 65 years thereafter.
That was the first drag racing venue and competition in Fontana. The more famous of the two was Fontana Drag City, located just east of the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and East Avenue. It's the first quarter-mile that had lights and conducted night racing on a narrow asphalt strip that ran southwest to northeast, uphill to boot, from 1955 until 1972. It was also known as Mickey Thompson International Dragway.
Throughout the years, that venue was just one of 22 quarter-mile drag strips south of Bakersfield. But that's history and there were no traditional 1,320-foot strips outside of Auto Club Famoso, better known as Bakersfield but actually located in McFarland, until Saturday. However, the 23rd quarter-mile strip — Auto Club Dragway — returned to the active roster, the only one ever to return to life.
Urban development had stopped racing at, among other places, Carlsbad, Palmdale, Colton, Riverside, Santa Ana, San Gabriel, Irwindale, Saugus, Terminal Island, San Fernando, Orange County and, most famously, Lions in Wilmington. In addition to joy, there was tragedy as at least 12 drivers were killed, including five at both Orange County and Lions.
Nearly two years ago, it appeared as though Auto Club Dragway had met its doom. Five years after moving the racing strip from its southern locale to its northern boundary, a court order shut down the first new strip in years over legal issues tied to the noise level in March 2012.
"It's important to the industry and Southern California," said Gillian Zucker, track president, about the settlement that saved the strip. "We are truly recognizing that with our oval, road course and other activities, we've got everything going. We didn't feel we could truly be a motorsports complex if we didn't have straight-line racing."
Thanks to a partnership with various Southern California organizations, track owner International Speedway Corp. has made a solid commitment not to allow the drag strip to fade into memory.
Of course, racers have heard such rhetoric in the past. But here's something they probably haven't heard or don't know — the commitment is strong, more so than anyone can imagine. How strong? Nearly $2 million. That number is far more impressive than a perfect 0.000-second reaction time off the start line.
That figure includes the cost of building a sound wall that measures 1,800 feet at 25 feet high, constructed with aid from NHRA, Auto Club, SEMA, K&N Filters and Lucas Oil at about $1 million. Settlement of the lawsuit that halted the racing is also part of the total cost.
It was a lawsuit aimed at collecting a few bucks. The cars, from throughout Southern California, didn't make the noise generated by BNSF train locomotives during the day and night for those living on commercially-zoned property in San Bernardino County.
In preparation for the Feb. 22 official re-opening of the drag strip, Auto Club Speedway held an open house on Saturday under bright skies Former NHRA Funny Car Jack Beckman was on hand, taking a selected few down the 1,320 feet in a two-seat dragster borrowed from the Frank Hawley Drag Racing School, one of at two schools scheduled to operate at the venue.
In addition to Street Legal cars that prompted the initial drag strip, there were also displays by Pacific Street Car Association, Southern California Drag Racing Association, Lucas Oil Series and Jr. Dragsters, among the categories that will be in operation in the first year. It's safe to assume the stronger (louder) cars may be included on future schedules if the noise doesn't exceed the limits.
Auto Club Dragway is tied in with Gilfian Field and Fontana Drag City in drag racing history. The not-so-new venue is located two miles to the southeast from Fontana Drag City, now part of the Village of Heritage, and four miles from the World War II airfield located just south of the 210 Freeway.
And, unlike its predecessors, this one seems to have a very solid future.


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Through the various suspensions imposed on members of the Seahawks over the past two years, internal dysfunction largely has been avoided.
But with the Seahawks one win away from, for all intents and purposes, nailing down the top seed in the NFC, news of a pair of new suspensions has prompted a reaction.
"Everyone should realize where this team is," receiver Golden Tate told ESPN 710 on Tuesday regarding the punishment imposed on cornerback Walter Thurmond and cornerback Brandon Browner. "You are affecting way more than yourself. I feel like that was kind of a selfish move on both those guys part."
Tate technically is right; any player who breaks the rules and makes himself unavailable to his team has committed a selfish act. But calling out a teammate publicly may not be the best way to go, because others in the locker room may not see things differently.
And so now, as the Seahawks try to come together and find a way to beat the Saints, the home team next Monday night possibly will be trying to resolve some unexpected and uncharacteristic in-house drama. Coupled with the fact that they won't have Thurmond or Browner (who's missing time with a groin injury), the Seahawks could be ripe for an upset.


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This week I made gulab jamuns and malai peda. Gulab jamun is the first Indian dessert I tried and I still love it as much as the first time. If you haven't tried it, think of round cakey dumplings fried and soaked in sugar syrup lightly flavoured with orange blossom water. I made the peda, because I was interested in using khoya (concentrated milk solids). The malai peda has a smooth fudge like texture, which is flavoured with cardamom and decorated with pistachios.
Gulab jamun made with flour, milk powder, sugar, almonds, cardamom and ghee.
Malai peda made with khoya, sugar, cardamom and pistachios.
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{The reno files} A real-life renovation guide: introduction
Two years in August, we contacted a local draftsman to talk about drawing up plans for our house extension. TWO YEARS AGO. Ever heard this old gem – that renovations always take twice as long and cost twice as much as you planned for? Yeah, so far, the first part is true. We're yet to find out about the other part because, well, we're only a few weeks in and while the bills have been frequent and hefty, we really won't know final costs for a while! We were originally told if all went smoothly we could have our plans drawn up, submitted and approved through council in a maximum of 12 weeks. Hahahahahahahaha. No. Not even close. It took us a year to do plans, soooo many months in council, stuff-ups and surprises and life stuff too. And so two years after showing our little sketches to the draftsman, here we are, seeing them come to life. It's SO exciting – we might even be able to host Christmas here this year (I've had to swap with my sisters for the past three years!) But I shouldn't get ahead of myself – read those first few sentences again!
I'm so tempted to throw in all the pics of the stages so far (although if you follow me on Instagram I've been posting daily pics and images of what's going on in InstaStories), but I really want to document this properly from start to finish – how we came up with the design, what we spent upfront before we even started building, the process of going through council and the build itself. And so, I'm going to have to get cracking on writing to catch up to where we're at! Bare with me… So what ARE we doing? Well, we're extending out and up – creating a family room with laundry and workshop on the ground floor and an attic library and master bedroom in the high-pitched roof. You can read more our plans here. When we bought this house we knew we were going to extend it – it was just a matter of how. If we had gone with the very first suggestion by a builder who lived a few doors down, it would have been a very different home to the one we're creating now! And it would have been very wrong for us. So there is a lot to the "live in a house for a while before you touch it" advice…
Part way through our council-approval-stage delay, Real Living magazine asked me to write an entire magazine on renovating. I'd been planning to contact them about writing again – it'd been a while since I'd done any kind of work and I was feeling like the time was right. In the end, they got me first and I agreed, although about two weeks in I started to regret it as it was a HUGE job – and not exactly easing back into work, which I'd envisioned I'd be doing! But once I got past the "OMG where do I start?!" I started to enjoy it. I've always been annoyed by magazine articles on renovation or those bathroom and kitchen guides – I never feel as though they cover the right things. It's all so general or about aesthetics – or with huge budgets And don't even get my started on renovation shows… I can't watch them. And I LIVE for this stuff. I'll only watch the UK version of Grand Designs – that's it! Anyway, for the reno guide, I was pretty much given free reign to write about what I wanted to write about as long as it fitted within their general section guides. And so I did. I wrote 40,000 words on renovating – why you should, where to start, who to contact, what things might cost, how long things might take, things you should or shouldn't do, how to shop, how to deal with tradies, how to decorate, how to be environmentally savvy, all things about windows, doors, floors, paint, hardware, lights, all the rooms, outside/inside and behind the scenes. I tried to include meaty information like measurements for placement of bathroom and kitchen fittings, who to contact for what job (you don't always need a builder or architect), what you'll be out of pocket before you even lift a hammer, and even if going the home builder route is for you. Basically, it was a 101 in renovating. It was something I always wanted to write and something I always wanted to read. Real Living Renovations is out now in newsagents and I do hope it's helpful!
And yet despite a whole magazine dedicated to it, I couldn't cover everything – and I couldn't get specific on something that is going to be entirely different one build to the next. And so, as a kind of extension (ha! see what I did there?) on that magazine, I thought I'd outline our own project here – what we've gone through, how long things took, what they cost, our problems and solutions, the good, the bad, the ugly! We are going the owner/builder route ourselves and one step further than that: Steve is literally building it! After being over his career for a while (politics/media!!!!! Not surprising!), he resigned late last year to start a whole new career: carpentery! We've often longed for a more relaxed, simple lifestyle – less stress, timeless skills, more time together… We came to that great understanding that earning a lot of money didn't mean happiness, so we changed our stars. We spoke to the carpenter we planned to use for our build and he was so keen for Steve to work on our house – he was happy to show him the ropes and build up his skills with a view to being accredited down the track via prior learning. In the end, his apprentice left and he offered Steve some work before our place was ready to go, so Steve donned the tools earlier this year and has been his trusty sidekick ever since, starting from scratch in a new career. I'm so proud – and so excited he will have such a huge part in building our extension.
Another thing we'll be doing – and documenting – is paying for everything ourselves. It's kind of bugged me for a long time now that somewhere along the line, blogs equal freebies – especially in the DIY/home arena. I often can't look past the fact that someone got something for free and that's why it is in their house. I can appreciate people earning money from their blog or turning it into their career and I really enjoy a lot of the blogs that do accept freebies – some of my faves manage to work it well. But that side of things is not for me. I'd love to some day, somehow, monetise my blog, but the current model with sponsorships/gifts/freebies etc isn't for me anymore. I stopped it all a while back and while it's tempting sometimes to say yes to things that are offered – especially if it really is something I'd probably buy – I don't feel it's a true reflection of what renovating/decorating/home-making is about. And I'm all for sharing the real side of things. So if it comes down to real budgets, real compromises are going to be made. And by real I don't mean hundreds of thousands of dollars and top-end everything. Ours is ballparked at $170k but that is for a huge extension, second storey, laundry, two decks and balcony. I know in parts of Sydney that money might buy you a couple of decks and a bathroom renovation. I also know in other parts of Australia it could buy you a beautiful house. I'm not saying it's a budget renovation, I'm just saying our money is going to have to work really hard to get what we want. We aren't taking out a loan or extending our mortgage, it's our hard-earned money going back into our home with hard physical work (well, Steve's hard physical work!!), careful choices and lots of compromises. And because of that – our home is not going to be Pinterest perfect. And it's not going to be designery, too tricky or trendy. It'll just be a home that reflects our wants and needs – and that is what everyone's home should be: a reflection of the people who live there. Not those who live in photoshopped pages of magazines! Because no-one lives in those rooms as they're portrayed. I KNOW what goes on before a house makes it into a magazine – lots of props (I recall a house having its entire contents replaced for a photoshoot!) rearranging, seeking of good angles, professional photographers and stylists, editing, cropping, photoshopping… Don't ever feel bad you don't measure up. All that applies to Instagram images of people's homes and lives too, by the way! Consider them inspiration and use them to inspire your own spin on it. It's taken me a while, but that's what I do now.
I figure by sharing our journey, you might pick up something (or pick up what NOT to do on some occasions! That's good too!) to help you on your own renovation journey. If you have something you're particularly keen on knowing about, please let me know. I'll try to work it in somewhere! Next up: working out the design….
Belinda x
PS: Speaking about renovations… For a guide to renovating your bathroom, head here. One day I'll get around to doing a kitchen one too. One day!


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Dear Michelle,
On the day that your husband was elected, you said that you had never been proud of the United States until that day. For the last three and a half years, I have been observing your husband and you, and I feel that it is time I share my thoughts with you. The day your husband was elected was the first time I was ever ashamed of this country, and today I am even more ashamed.
I was ashamed then because your husband was not elected because he was the best qualified to do the job, or because he was the most intelligent, or even because anyone really thought he could get anything worthwhile done. The reason your husband was elected, the only reason, is because of the color of his skin. Your husband was chosen by the Democratic Party to be their token black, and that is the shame of the American public. We deserve better than a community organizer who seems to look down on his fellow Americans while bowing to an Arab leader. We deserve a president who was thoroughly vetted by his party and the media, not someone whom the DNC now admits was never even eligible for the job. There are many other men, Black, Hispanic, of Asian descent, Native American, and even Caucasian who are many times more qualified and eligible to be the president. If he had even a shred of self-respect, Barack would resign and convince Joe Biden to do so as well, so that someone with a backbone could fix the mess your husband (NOT George Bush) has made much worse.
Your husband said he would bring unity to the country; instead, he has brought class warfare and fanned the flames of racism by saying that his son would look like Travon Martin. When the Pharisees asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was, he replied, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with your entire mind. This is the greatest foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.(Matt.22:37-40 NAS). Notice that there is no modifying clause in the second commandment You shall love thy neighbor as yourself. NOT You shall love your neighbor as yourself, so long as his skin is the same color as yours or he does not make more money than you. In our home, race is not an issue; everyone is welcome and treated respectfully. My mother raised me right; she taught me these verses and the golden rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I have lived this way all my life and never judge others; it is Gods job to judge, not mine. There is a big difference between loving the person and accepting the sin; I can love the person and still hate the things they do. The media was quick to condemn Sarah Palins daughter for getting pregnant (or was it because she chose to have the baby?), but at least she owned up and took responsibility for her actions, which is something your husband has said publicly he would not make his daughters do in that same situation. No, he would rather have them murder their baby should they be so shortsighted as to get pregnant before they were ready.
Make no mistake here, please; through Christ, I love you and your family, but I hate what Barack has done to this wonderful country of ours. He has no need to apologize for an accidental burning of the Quran any more than they would apologize for a deliberate burning of the Bible or our Constitution. In fact, as a nation, there is nothing he needs to apologize for on our behalf, but instead much he needs to apologize to us for. He needs to apologize to us for his blatant disregard for the Constitution, the very foundation of our government, and the freedoms guaranteed to us by that document. I have family members who fought to protect that document and what it stands for; yet you and your husband treat it like toilet paper for all the respect you show.
You are fond of quoting the Scripture in Luke that tells us that To those to whom much has been given, from them much shall also be expected, but then you take it out of context and tell us that means that the federal government has the right to take what one man earns and give it to the man who sits on his butt all day doing nothing. Sorry, but I do not think that is what Christ meant when he said take care of the widows and orphans. He also told us that God loves a cheerful (or willing) giver. He did not want to force us to do what we so willingly do out of love. In case you had not noticed, when there is a crisis (i.e. Katrina) the American people pull together to help each other faster and better than the government (i.e. FEMA) could.
The recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was equally shameful and has added one hundred-fold to the stress of my daily life. Stress that was not a part of my life until Barack took the office that by rights does not belong to him. My husband has non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the treatments are expensive, and how long now before the committee decides that because he is not a productive citizen he cannot access the treatments he needs to stay alive? I clench my teeth at night wondering if he will be here when our daughter (now fifteen) walks down the aisle on her wedding day. When I had a heart attack last year, it was a Catholic-run hospital that picked up the greatest portion of the cost, allowing us to make payments on the rest when we could, not the government. Through the contraception mandate, Obama care will shut down that hospital and hundreds like it, leaving people like me to fall between the cracks of your perfect healthcare.
I am also ashamed that the first family sees the Presidency as a lottery they won (how many vacations do you need in a year, really?) I have not had a job in two years, and our family would love to have a vacation in Europe, just one, someday. Yet your family has taken over seventeen vacations, at my last count, on the taxes people like me have paid. So, in effect, the middle class of America has been paying for you and your entourage of secretaries and secret service personnel to run around the world, shopping and sightseeing, when we cannot afford to go visit relatives who live in another state. Your husbands policies have not created any jobs worth talking about, but they have kept businesses from creating jobs. Even a low-paying job would allow us the luxury of going to visit family.
So tell me Michelle, just what are you proud of? Are you proud of the fact that you are living in the White House because people did not want to be called racist? Or perhaps you are proud that your husband has chipped away at the civil liberties of the American taxpayers? Or perhaps you are proud of the race riots your husband instigated when he said that if he had a son he would look like Travon Martin, instead of keeping his mouth shut and letting the police handle the situation? The truth (whatever it is) will come out. I do not think there is anything that your husband has accomplished while in office that you should be proud of. Oh wait, I forgot all that golfing he has done that must have improved his game; I guess you can be proud of that.
In Christ Always,
Becky Smith
The only easy day was yesterday
Dedicated to my brother in law who died
doing what he loved being a Navy SEAL
At least we have it straightened out.....
Sent from behind enemy lines.


text: Hi all, I would tend to guess this problem is fairly common and many solutions are already in place, so I would like to enquirer about your solutions to the problem: In our large cluster we have certain nodes going down with I/O hard disk errors. We have some suspicion about the causes but would like to investigate this further. However, the log files don't show much if anything at all (which is understandably given that the log files reside on disk and we are hitting I/O disk errors). Albeit the console shows some interesting messages but cannot scroll back long enough. My question now, is there a cute little way to gather all the console outputs of > 1000 nodes? The nodes don't have physical serial cables attached to them - nor do we want to use many concentrators to achieve this - but the off-the-shelf Supermicro boxes all have an IPMI card installed and SoL works quite ok. Initially, conserver.com looked nice and we also found an IPMI interface for it, but that comes with two downsides: (1) it blocks IPMI access (I have yet to find out if a secondary user can use SoL when another user is using this already, but I doubt it) and (2) it simply does not catch messages appearing in dmesg (simple ones like plugging in a USB keyboard), but that may be a configuration problem on our side. Also we tried (r)syslog but somehow this does not get all the messages either, even when using something like *.* @loghost. For the time being we are experimenting with using "script" in many "screen" environment which should be able to monitor ipmitool's SoL output, but somehow that strikes me as inefficient as well. So, my question boils down to: How do people solve this problem? Thanks a lot Cheers Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone/Fax: +49 511 762-17185 / -17193 http://www.top500.org/system/9234 | http://www.top500.org/connfam/6/list/31


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Wouldn't it be great if you could always know when your favorite products are on sale?
Discount retailer Target is rolling out a new technology that aims to do just that.
"My TargetWeekly" is customized version of its weekly ad. Visitors to the Web site will be able to pick what products they are most interested in and set up custom views of the ad and request alerts when their favorite products are on sale.
They also will be able to view coupons, see top 10 deals, share information via Facebook and Twitter and create their own mobile shopping lists for their next visit in-store or online.
My TargetWeekly can also be found on the Target Facebook fan page, and according to Target, the more guests "love" a product, the smarter the recommendation engine will become.


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Emotional Labor Day (Part 1)Sep. 5th, 2011 10:51 am
PrologueI haven't been posting much in the past few months. My time has been occupied being angrier than I've ever been before in my life. Besides the minimal energy I've been able to spare to do my paying job, most if not all of my intellectual energy has gone into composing (in my head) what you're about to read. I haven't worked on my dissertation or read research papers, much less worked on any hobbies. I haven't worked on any open-source projects for the fun of it (besides the one I'm getting paid to work on). This has been it.
Part 1
"I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action."
-- Audre Lorde
Today is Labor Day in the US. I want to write about the emotional labor that I have to do just to do the usual things people do -- have a job, have friends, study -- and be a trans person. When I say I'm trans, it means -- for the purposes of this discussion -- that people don't, universally, recognize my sex and gender as valid. And the more power someone has, at least in the place and time where I live, the less they tend to recognize my sex and gender as valid. The number of fucks I would ordinarily give about this approaches zero asymptotically, but unfortunately, when people have power over you, you have to care what they think. Because what they think affects what they do, and what they do affects things like whether you can get a job, board a plane, or walk down the street without getting assaulted. Caring about they think is emotional labor, too, and it's unpaid labor.
So call today Emotional Labor Day, and let's talk about how, at work, some people can simply do the job they're supposedly being paid for and be accepted, validated and recognized for their achievements; others of us have to do just as well at the job (better, usually, in fact) -- and do a litany of emotional tasks. We don't get paid overtime. (I originally learned the concepts of "emotional labor" and "emotional work" from the writing of Barbara Ehrenreich and Laura Kipnis. Sometimes "labor" gets used to refer to the stuff that has economic value attached, like smiling and saying "have a nice day" when you're a cashier at Starbucks, and "work" gets used to refer to the stuff that doesn't, like pretending to be interested in "Star Wars" because your significant other loves it. As I hope I'm about to show, though, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.)
As a trans person, as a queer person, as a -- to use an umbrella term that's less offensive than some such terms, gender and sexual minority group (GSM) member -- part of the emotional work I get asked to do involves assuming good intent. It happens all the time. Someone does, or says something hurtful, and maybe one out of twenty times when it happens, I say something about it. Like "that was hurtful to people like me." Like "don't do it next time." (The other nineteen times out of twenty, I silently rage while convincing myself that saying something would cost energy I can't afford to spend. That's emotional work, too.) Almost all the time, the answer is "well, I didn't intend any harm." The person being critiqued seems unconcerned as to my intent, which is to educate them so they can learn. So really, when they say that it's the intention behind your actions, and not your actions, that matters, they actually mean to apply such a rule selectively. They really mean that privileged people -- people who are white, or who are affluent, or who are men, or who are cisgender, or who have cissexual bodies, or who are heterosexual, or who are able-bodied, or preferably all of the above, get a free pass to do or say anything oppressive, and get out of it because their intent was good. Having meant well is the excuse that becomes the reason not to take criticism, not to listen, not to apologize, not to do better next time.
The tyranny of good intentions really has very little to do with intentions (rarely are people consciously aware of their intentions), but it has a lot to do with power. Specifically, it has to do with the power to make other people do your emotional work for you. When someone tells you, "It invalidates me when you say that trans men were born female but became male" (example taken from an actual recent Twitter conversation; my take on the foundation behind this), and you say you were only trying to be helpful, you are dodging the emotional work of having to admit you made a mistake, having to admit that you don't know everything. You are shifting the work onto the other party -- the person who got hurt. You are asking them to suspend their disbelief and assume that you meant well, even though you didn't do the work of showing that you meant well. You are also shaming the other person for lashing out against a person who is -- the magical silencing word -- an ally.
And you are discouraging them from speaking out next time. If telling someone "You hurt me" gets met with "fuck you, I was trying to help but because you were so rude to me, I'm going to hurt you worse now", well, as a defense mechanism, next time you're probably just going to suffer in silence. This is the point that lightgetsin made recently about asking web site owners to make their sites accessible. It's a double bind: if you complain, you get shamed for complaining. If you say nothing, privileged people complain that they don't know how to respect people in minority groups because those people don't speak up enough about oppression.
Power can impose double binds. And the kind of power I'm talking about -- the kind that involves using language to control reality rather than using outright physical violence -- is very effective. When you've been taught to defer to people whose identities are more socially valued than yours is, you tend to internalize that education. You accord the benefit of the doubt. You learn to suppress your pain in favor of considering how painful it must be to be criticized for using a slur.
If I'm to be charitable (see, there I am again, being a good little marginalized person and doing the privileged people's work for them!), I could assume that this phenomenon doesn't just occur because privileged folks are lazy motherfuckers. I could think about how difficult it can be to be told that something you were doing without really thinking it was hurting somebody.
But I don't really know why it would be in my interests to be charitable towards people who already have more privilege than me. I doubt anyone always likes being told they're wrong, but in a situation where I'm on the low end of the power scale (and power and privilege are always relative), what seems to happen more often than not -- even after years of raising my own consciousness -- is that I get recruited into doing the high-privilege person's work for them. I remain silent. I ignore opportunities to call someone out on using language that reinforces and reconstructs systems of oppression and hierarchies of value. Because what I've been taught my entire life is that whatever job I'm being paid to do, I'm always expected to do the work of helping the privileged people around me maintain their self-image. Usually, that self-image involves thinking of oneself as a nice progressive person who's an ally to all members of disenfranchised groups. One of the privileges a person has, then, if they occupy a coveted position in the network of social hierarchies, is low-cost narcissism. If you're poor, or a person of color, or disabled, or a GSM member, you're not going to get self-esteem for free. It's going to involve actually doing good things -- and not doing bad ones -- in order to get people around you to validate you. (And even then, they might not.) But privileged people can maintain narcissism for a low, low price -- all they have to do, instead of doing good deeds, is say those magic words "I meant well", and an entire class of people will sing "Yes, sir, you did" like a chorus. Because they've been taught to work for free, and because they know that the price of demanding reciprocity is social banishment. Or else the price is the deployment of the dreaded tone argument, which is how the privileged person gets to resist the odd bit of criticism that makes it past the "good intentions" filter: they say you're being rude and angry, which gives them a license to keep hurting you as much as they want.
In the words of Chungyen Chang: willful ignorance is just as bad as action with intent. (Add emphasis on "willful"; I understand the word to mean not just ignorance through intentional -- see what I did there? -- aversion to learning, but self-serving passive ignorance as well. In other words, if you're unaware of a truth that would be inconvenient to you, you might be willfully ignorant.)
(If you haven't read "Intent! It's Fucking Magic!" already, go read it now. I'll wait.)
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You want your child�s teachers to have tenure because . . .
� only with tenure can they stand up for your child against inane and harmful directives issued by administrators and central office.
Who do you trust to educate your child? The teacher who is in the classroom every day, discovering what works and what does not work, or the administrator who barely knows your child�s name and has not taught in the classroom for 10 years, or the central office suit who has never seen your child and has not been in the classroom for 20 years, or the state legislator who does not even know what school your child goes to and has never taught?
If you trust the classroom teacher, then you need to save that person�s power to stand up for your child. That might sound harsh, but that is what this tenure fight is about.
It also helps to know what tenure is and is not.
In North Carolina it has never been a lifelong job and protection for incompetence. Tenured teachers can be fired, sometimes immediately. For example, if I am insubordinate, if I refuse to carry out an administrator�s lawful directive, I can be fired. With tenure I can complain about the directive, I can talk to other teachers about it, I can inform parents of a harmful directive, I can contact the school board or write the newspaper, but I must carry it out. But without tenure I have to shut my yap because that administrator I am bucking is likely to be the one who at the end of the year recommends whether to renew my contract.
So, what is tenure? It is protection from unwarranted firing. To dismiss they have to have a reason and document it. In some cases they have to give me a chance to correct a problem. But they have to point out my deficiency and say �Fix this or you might be gone.�
So why should you care? Because teacher tenure is good for your child. With tenure I can buck my bosses (within limits) when I think a program some administrator has picked up at a workshop is not that great and maybe even harms learning. Without it, I can�t.
I know beyond a doubt that if tenure is killed, or if it is replaced with something even weaker than the current tepid North Carolina version, teachers will clam up and will not feel able to challenge administration. It is not that administration is always wrong. But sometimes they are and need to be challenged.
However, even under the current system I have seen teachers with tenure afraid to speak up for fear of getting on the bad side of their bosses. In the past I have had teachers without tenure come to me to complain about various directives and say �Richard, I don�t have tenure. I can�t say anything. But you have it and you need to speak up.� So, who speaks up when no one has tenure?
One would think the Republicans currently in power would be sympathetic to this. After all, they spent years in the minority, feeling that their voices were unheard. They also tend to have the most intense clashes with the �Educrats� (in my phrase, �the suits�), while claiming to support the classroom teacher. Well, if they (and you) feel that the people doing the day-to-day job in the classroom know better than the suits in the office about how to teach your child, then they (and you) need to preserve our ability to speak up against harmful policies and directives.
On the other hand, if you want to centralize power in the hands of the bureaucracy, give more weapons to the administrators to use against classroom teachers, and get us to shut up and do as we are told, then kill tenure. But it will not only be teachers who suffer, it will be the children who will no longer have teachers who can stand up for them.
Richard Johnson of Burlington is a teacher in the Caswell County School System.


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2 stranded snowboarders led off Mount Rainier by rescuers
Two snowboarders who spent two nights stranded on Mount Rainier were snowshoeing out Tuesday after rescuers had to "swim" through snow that was chest-deep in spots to reach them, national park officials said.
Derek Tyndall and Thomas Dale didn't appear to have frostbite or other injuries when rescuers reached them around 11 a.m., park spokeswoman Lee Snook said.
The two had been stuck on the 14,410-foot mountain since Sunday after getting lost in whiteout conditions and digging a snow cave for protection.
Rescuers first spotted the men Monday but couldn't immediately hike to them because of darkness and avalanche danger.
After reaching the pair Tuesday, rescuers gave Tyndall, 21, and Dale, 20, warm liquids and assessed them to determine if they could walk back down the mountain on their own.
The men were only a few miles from the Paradise ranger station, but "it's not a straight shot" and conditions were treacherous, with snow up to 4 feet deep, Snook said. Rescuers decided the two could snowshoe out with them, and they began the trek to the station, which is at the 5,400-foot level.
Tyndall is from Sumner, Wash., and Dale is from Indiana, Snook said. She couldn't confirm media reports that Dale's hometown is Fort Wayne, Ind., and she didn't know how the two knew each other.
Tyndall and Dale were snowboarding Sunday near Camp Muir, a climbers' layover at about the 10,000-foot level of Mount Rainier. They became lost in a snowstorm with high winds that created whiteout conditions, Snook said.
They used a cellphone to call 911 and said they were digging a snow cave for protection.
The two weren't equipped to stay overnight. However, they said they were cold but OK when they used the cellphone to check in again Monday morning before its battery died.
Rescuers spotted the pair Monday at about the 7,000-foot level below McClure Rock on the lower Paradise glacier. They were about a half-mile from the two -- close enough to wave -- but were forced back by nightfall and dangerous conditions.
Thirty rescuers working in five-member teams went out Tuesday through snow 2- to 4-feet deep, Snook said. It was so soft members had to take turns "swimming through the snow" to break a trail.
It took searchers about two hours to reach the men from the Paradise ranger station, and Snook was certain the group would make it back out before dark.
The weather was better than expected Tuesday with patches of clear sky at the park, where heavy snow is not unusual.
"This is what happens on Mount Rainier," Snook said. "This is why people use Mount Rainier to train for Mount Everest."
In January, four people disappeared in snowstorms on the mountain, which draws between 1.5 million and 2 million visitors each year. The bodies of three of them were found over the summer after snow melted.


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AIDS. ADC results in changes in multiple neurologic areas:
ADC is a common nervous system complication of late-stage HIV infection.
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Factors that may increase your chance of having ADC include:
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Walking, balance, and coordination require a great deal of effort at this stage.
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Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with:
Images may be taken of your bodily structures. This can be done with:
Your brain's electrical activity may be tested. This can be done with an electroencephalogram (EEG).
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include:
Anti-HIV drugs are often used to treat ADC. A medication plan will be created that is right for you. These drugs are often given in combination.
Other medications may be used along with antiretroviral therapy to treat symptoms of ADC. These may include:
ADC occurs in people with HIV. Ways to help reduce your chance of getting HIV include:
AIDS—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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AIDS Committee of Toronto
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AIDS dementia complex. University of California at San Francisco website. Available at:
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Luo X, Carlson KA, Wojna V, et al. Macrophage proteomic fingerprinting predicts HIV-1-associated cognitive impairment.
Meehan RA, Brush JA. An overview of AIDS dementia complex.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
American commentator Glenn Beck vowed at his "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday to create a new global movement aimed at defending Israel against the hypocrisy of the UN and human rights groups.
Some 1,000 people - mostly American Christians - heard Beck live at the Southern Wall excavation site at the southern end of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Many more watched his speech on large screens at Jerusalem's City Hall. There were also reportedly viewing parties around the world.
Hoping to inspire Israelis to resist the international community's cynical and dangerous agenda, Beck declared that in the Jewish state "there is more courage in one small square mile than in all of Europe."
Beck highlighted some of the horrible tragedies Israel has faced of late, like the massacre of the Fogel family in northern Samaria, and noted that despite it all, most Israelis do not lose hope.
In light of the incredible hatred Israel faces and the restraint of its responses, Beck said the UN and various human rights groups "are nearly comical in their double standards" toward Israel.
"These organizations have become bullies and grotesque parodies of what they claim to represent," said Beck. "The cause of human rights has been taken over by individuals who share little with those who originally led those movements."
Beck announced that Jerusalem was only the first stop on a new speaking tour and a new movement that will "take back the phrase 'human rights' and put it back where it belongs."
His next stop is South Africa, from where Beck will broadcast his television program and remind people of the horrors of true apartheid, simultaneously exposing the lie that Israel is imposing apartheid on the Palestinians.
From there, Beck will travel through South America before returning to Texas next week for another large-scale rally in defense of Israel.
Beck said he is going through all this effort because he noticed that too many Israelis were starting to believe the lies of the international community, and to believe that they must meet the demands of others in order to be accepted.
"Do not lose hope. Do not lose confidence in yourself. You must have courage. You must have knowledge that God led you to this land and that God is not a stranger to the children of Abraham," Beck said in closing.
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In collecting old pictures of S. Mariani & Sons Hardware at 23rd and Florida Streets in San Francisco, I noticed an old fountain that was once out front. In many of these pictures, the S of S. Mariani & Sons himself, Stephen, was standing next to it proudly.
|Photo used with permission of Carl Pisaturo, http://carlpisaturo.com
I've many times visited the home of the Mariani family at this location. Stephen Mariani opened two hardware stores in 1875. When the stores closed in the 1950s, they literally just closed. The store was left downstairs of the home and just all closed up. We used to go into the hardware store and play with the old cash register and tools. My dad even had some items I inherited when he died—business cards, a brush, and a pencil.
Throughout my lifetime of visits, there was no fountain out front on the sidewalk. So what happened to it? When I was combing through items at the California Historical Society in San Francisco in March I found this newspaper clipping (newspaper not named or dated):
New Park Gets an Old Fountain
An unusual antique fountain of broad multi-purpose design—it was made to serve horses, humans and dogs alike-- has been presented to the State for inclusion in the new Victorian Park at the foot of Hyde street.
The fluted cast-iron fountain has stood since 1881 in front of the old Mariani hardware store at 23rd and Florida streets.
It was donated for the State Park by the sons and daughters of Stephen and Victoria Mariani, who came to San Francisco in 1862 and established their store in 1875.
One of the daughters, Mrs. Stella Bryant, who still lives at 23rd and Florida, said the fountain was cast in Oakland in 1872 and acquired by her father nine years later.
Charles DeTurk, State Director of Parks and Recreation, said the fountain "reflects all the ornate grandeur of its period."
I decided to look into this fountain and, using my best friend, Google, I found this website:http://aboutinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/04/forgotten-fountain.html. Armed with the newspaper article, directions, and the picture from the About in the City blog, I took a trip to San Francisco on BART last weekend, determined to see if the fountain was indeed still there.
I got off BART at the Embarcadero stop and walked up Embarcadero towards Ghiradelli Square, stopping for a bit at Pier 35, where I walked across the street to the corner of Kearny and Bay. Why did I stop there?
That is the spot that the California pioneer Giuseppe (Joseph) Mariani, father to Stephen Mariani, was fatally injured in a blasting accident in 1871.
May 11, 1871, Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, CA
I walked across to the pier and sat there looking at the boats in the water. Is that what Giuseppe was doing there? Watching the boats? He was a house painter, so I don't think he was working. I think he was thinking just like I was. As I sat there on fancy redwood benches staring into the Bay, I was interrupted by a "vet looking for some lunch money."
Giuseppe was there just after the Civil War. Were there Civil War vets asking for spare change while that dynamite was being set? Were there children chasing seagulls, couples holding hands? What was he thinking about those moments before his life was interrupted permanently?
I got a bit sad, so I continued on. I passed the street performers and foreign families sightseeing at Pier 39. I passed the smell of crab and sourdough at Fisherman's Wharf. I passed the other smells of stagnant water and homelessness of Aquatic Park and there it was.
The Fountain.
I placed my hand on it in reverence. This fountain was in Oakland and shipped to San Francisco. This fountain was touched by S. Mariani. This fountain was touched by Vera and her siblings. This fountain was touched by shoppers in the hardware store and passersby. Possibly even my dad. As I thought of each of them, I imagined seeing them there with me. Only they all were in black and white like the photos of the fountain in front of 23rd and Florida. I was in color and so was the fountain. And so was the sleeping lady on the nearby bench, lying there around MY fountain, as if MY fountain were a stove giving off the heat of 140 years.
I sat on one of the surrounding benches and just looked at it. I admired the different drinking spots for horses and dogs. I wondered how it was filled. I think through the top, but clearly no water other than that from the skies had been in it for years. Now it was leaves, gum and cigarette butts. I cleaned out the largest drinking spot of the debris and then wrote down the words from the small plaque at the bottom, silently promising my fountain that I'd be back to clean her again someday soon.
"A gift to the State of California by the pioneer Mariani family. The grandfather, James Mariani, arrived on these shores in 1852. Presented in the memory of the father, Stephen Mariani, who purchased the fountain in 1881 to place in front of his establishment at 23rd and Florida. November 1961." The grandfather was Joseph or Giuseppe, not James. But the rest is, as they say, history.


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IYC in Russia Petr Fedotov | added on Jan 21, 2011 | Russian Federation More that 50 specials events are envisaged within the scope of IYC2011 in Russia
Focus on Tap Water Cynthia Van ginkel | added on Jan 20, 2011 | Canada Find out fast facts about water purification and treatment in Metro Vancouver as well as bottled water vs. tap water. Take part in a Global Experiment "pH of the planet" using portable pH testing equipment. Get your home tap water tested for lead.
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26th Philippine Chemistry Congress Shalom Rodriguez | added on Jan 17, 2011 | Philippines The 26PCC will celebrate the 2011 IYC with special sessions which aim to highlight the important role that Chemistry plays in our industry, environment and society.
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Chemistry the Elixer of Life Ma. Cecilia Almeda | added on Jan 14, 2011 | Philippines A campaign on the essence of understanding chemistry as an important step in living a better life. Encouraging young students from the elementary, secondary and tertiary levels to study chemistry by inviting them to attend exhibits and presentations and lectures. It is a campaign on career opportunities.


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California Health Care Cuts Could Lead To Higher Costs And Possibly Deaths, Officials Warn
"The poor, the sick and the people who help them survive paraded into the state Capitol to plead with lawmakers Wednesday to spare the programs Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said must be slashed to tame California's $24.3-billion budget deficit," the LA Times reports. Public health officials warn the cuts would "halt medical insurance for more than 2 million Californians, sending them streaming into emergency rooms and costing the state billions of dollars for the more expensive care they would receive there -- and potentially causing deaths." A "10-person legislative budget panel" is reviewing the proposed cuts.
Schwarzenegger "expressed sadness over the budget slashing that he has resolved to carry out" but says the cuts are necessary to "tame" California's deficit. But "scores of patients and healthcare advocates told the legislative committee that in many cases the loss of state funding would mean an even bigger loss of federal dollars," including $9 of federal funds lost for every $1 the state cuts for family planning. Schwarzenegger responded by saying "We sometimes give up federal money so we can move forward and live within our means," and added "that's just the way it is" (Bailey and Zavis, 5/28).
The Sacramento Bee highlighted the potential effect of the proposed cuts on children. If enacted, they would "make California the first state to eliminate government health coverage for low- to moderate-income children" by "closing the state's Healthy Families program, which provides medical, dental and vision care to more than 900,000 children." California pays "only about a third of the program's overall funding, as the federal government pays two dollars for every dollar California spends funding that would be lost."
Democrats have "signaled early opposition" to the cut, and "it's not clear Republicans are on board" (Yamamura, 5/28).This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.


text: Warsaw, Poland - Greece gave their troubled country a lift it desperately needed by stunning Russia 1-0 against the odds to reach the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Saturday and send their opponents out of the tournament.Facing a tense election back home and mired in a deep financial crisis, Greece secured victory with a Giorgos Karagounis goal deep into first-half stoppage-time to put his side through as Group A runners-up.The Czech Republic, thrashed 4-1 by Russia in their opening game, beat Poland 1-0 to reach the last eight as group winners on six points.Greece and Russia, who could not repeat their impressive opening win which had commentators purring, were next with four, with Fernando Santos's side progressing thanks to the head-to-head rule.Greek players and coaching staff celebrated wildly on the pitch in front of their small section of fans who had been heavily outnumbered by the large Russian contingent that descended on the Polish capital.Greece stunned the football world by winning Euro 2004 as huge outsiders and could be on a roll again after the much maligned traits of being a well-organised, if limited side, proved a hurdle the more talented Russians, let down by wayward shooting, could not cross.Santos, the Portuguese coach charged with following 'King Otto' Rehhagel, the German who led Greece to triumph eight years ago, said his side had been inspired "by the history of Greece"."What we have achieved is very important," Santos, sitting with a Greece scarf draped around his neck, told a news conference."Greece has huge pride for its history. Everyone has to respect Greece."Russia, who had raised hopes of emulating their run to the semifinals four years ago, appeared to have their destiny in their own hands as they topped the group coming into the game.But despite the best promptings of Andrei Arshavin, their woeful finishing let them down and fate conspired against them elsewhere, with the Czech Republic's victory over the Poles ensuring it was the final match in charge of Russia for Dutch coach Dick Advocaat.Advocaat, heading back home to take charge of PSV Eindhoven, said his side were not sharp enough to score."Even though we lost today we played brilliantly in the first half," he said."Then they got a goal and that created a different story. "We didn't have the sharpness to score that goal."Russia had 25 shots to Greece's five and 62 percent of possession. But that counted for nothing as Greece, facing a win or bust game after taking just one point from two matches, took their chance when it mattered as the Russians fell asleep at the back.After withstanding long spells of pressure, Greece struck in the closing seconds of the opening half.Midfielder and captain Karagounis, winning his 120th cap to equal Theodor Zagorakis's record for his country, took advantage of poor marking at a throw-in to race into the box and fire hard past Vyacheslav Malafeyev.Victory and his goal were bittersweet for Karagounis who will be suspended for the quarterfinal after a second-half yellow card shown for diving, when the Greeks were convinced they should have been awarded a penalty."The moment is pure magic for all of us," Karagounis said. "This night is very important, it is something important for Greece for all Greeks. We said we would give it all, despite all the difficulties."We scored at exactly the moment we needed to. Now it is time to celebrate."The Greek party now heads to Gdansk and a quarterfinal showdown with the winners of Group B which Germany lead heading into the last round of matches.


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BlackBerry's head of India operations, Sunil Dutt, has left the company effective immediately. Because India is such an important market for BlackBerry, a replacement has already been named. BlackBerry's Indian operations will be overseen by Rick Costanzo, executive vice president for global sales.
There's no word on why Mr. Dutt left the company.
"India is an extremely important market for BlackBerry and our aim is to continue and build on our recent momentum with the launch of BlackBerry 10," the statement added.
There's no word on why Mr. Dutt left the company.


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JetBrains has cleared the launchpad with the 3.0 release of its YouTrack keyboard-centric issue and bug tracker. The product itself offers search queries syntax and batch operations on multiple issues from the command window.
In an effort to try and provide more customizable workflow options, JetBrains says that YouTrack 3.0 has been enhanced with complete issue attributes customization. With these additions, the company is hopeful that developers will be able to automate issues-related to life-cycle management tasks as they correlate to specific process needs.
"We focused on reaching a simple but very powerful goal: to provide our customers with complete customization without sacrificing our key concept of pure simplicity. With customizable workflow and custom attributes, we've reached this goal in YouTrack 3.0," said Vadim Gurov, YouTrack team lead. "We have also added free licensing options to support small teams, startups, and open source projects in adopting the product."
According to JetBrains, with YouTrack 3.0 developers can:
- Define workflow to automate issue life-cycle management
- Customize the set of issue attributes and their values
- Submit issues by email
- Automatically close or modify any related issue attributes from VCS Commit Comment
- Access and handle issues from a mobile device
- Add other users to an issue watchers list
- Customize the sidebar to show only the tags and saved searches you need
- Import existing projects from any bug tracker
- Manage issues and projects programmatically with the enhanced YouTrack RESTful API
- Integrate YouTrack with TestLink, TestRail, and GitHub
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The Virginia Bar Association (VBA) has begun an effort to help military personnel returning home from the wars in Afghanistan.
The VBA is partnering with Army OneSource on a campaign to recruit Virginia attorneys to help service members, veterans and their families address any legal challenges they face.
"Our goal is to get 200 attorneys in Virginia to step forward and help make legal assistance available to all who served," said Hugh M. Fain III, the VBA's president. "Service members and veterans from Virginia and their families have made huge sacrifices for their country. Now we're giving attorneys in Virginia the opportunity to help these heroes with their legal challenges."
The campaign, which began on Oct. 2, will continue until Veteran's Day,
The VBA is asking members to consider presenting a legal clinic or workshop at military events, or to provide pro bono or reduced-rate legal advice or representation to service members and veterans.
"Even something as simple as understanding and explaining their federally-protected housing and employment rights can make a huge difference in helping them readjust to life back home," Fain said in a statement.


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World trade is expected to grow by 2.5 percent this year and 4.5 percent in 2014, the World Trade Organization's new chief Roberto Azevedo said on Monday, revising down previous estimates of 3.3 percent and 5 percent.e
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In his press conference since taking the helm on Sept 1, Azevedo said the figures would be detailed in a report due out on Sept 19. He said the forecasts had been cut because the European economy had not recovered in the second quarter of this year as expected, but gave no further details.
The original forecasts were presented in April by Azevedo's predecessor Pascal Lamy, who warned that the threat of protectionism may be greater than at any time since the start of the economic crisis, since failing growth policies might spur countries to erect barriers to imports instead.
Independent trade monitors, such as the Global Trade Alert report run by Simon Evenett at Switzerland's St Gallen University, have found countries are using "stealth" protectionism - skirting the WTO rules to avoid censure by the Geneva-based body.
Before the WTO can improve its role in policing protectionism, it needs to resolve the impasse in global trade negotiations, Azevedo said. Calling the WTO "a threat to itself", he said it was up to the body's 159 member states to upgrade the WTO rules to tackle sophisticated protectionism.
That requires a breakthrough at a ministerial meeting in Bali this December, where the WTO hopes to agree a few of the less contentious elements of the Doha round of trade negotiations, which have been in stalemate for years.
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Mitt Romney has moved four points ahead of President Obama, his best showing ever, in a new survey conducted by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling for two liberal clients, the dailykos.com web site and Service Employees International Union.
Romney is up 50-46 percent in the poll, conducted Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. He benefits from a gender gap-in-reverse, leading by 17 points among men while trailing by nine points among women voters.
The PPP survey may be a so-called "outlier" poll, at conflict with other surveys.
A new Reuters-IPSOS poll has Obama back in the lead 46-43 percent, with Romney's "bump" after the first debate "decreasing," according to IPSOS' Julia Clark. The ABC/Washington Post poll, released Monday, gave Obama a 49-46 percent lead.
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Public Policy Polling noted that 44 percent of those surveyed consider themselves "conservative," perhaps tilting the results slightly in Romney's direction.
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Analysis: FCIAC boys basketball will be a wide-open sprint to the finish
The St. Joseph boys basketball team, which currently has the best overall record and has to be considered an ever-so-slight favorite if forced to pick one, has a 21-point loss to Wilton, which is currently tied for 11th place in the league rankings, on its resume.
Bassick, the two-time defending champion, has lost to unheralded New Canaan. Well, unheralded as of a month ago; the Rams are just a half game out of a conference playoff spot.
Westhill, a team nobody mentioned in the preseason, is the only remaining unbeaten team in league play.
Fairfield Ludlowe has scored 35, 32 and 30 points in three games -- and won each of them.
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Darien, the only winless team in conference play, minus its best player on Tuesday almost beat Trinity Catholic and has a non-league win over Greenwich, which went to double overtime before losing to Trinity, which was the last remaining overall unbeaten team until 10 days ago, which...
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Welcome to life in the FCIAC as we make the turn past the midseason pole. The word parity was not bandied about during the preseason for nothing. The top of the league has taken a giant step or two back to the pack, there are fewer teams coaches can check off as automatic wins and there is a far deeper middle class than at any time in recent memory.
Going into Thursday night's games, just two games separated eight teams that would be battling for the final four seeds in the FCIAC Tournament.
Several coaches have confided that the league is down -- using a less benign word than down -- this season, which is a relative sentiment. The top teams this year would be underdogs against the elite of years past.
But maybe the glass-half-full view offers a better picture.
Games are more competitive and there is greater uncertainty. The first four teams that would be out of the league playoffs could easily unseat a few of the teams that would be the last four in.
Expanding the scope, does anyone give Staples, riding a three-game winning streak and right now sitting in the eighth position, no chance of beating Westhill, shockingly the top seed and the team which everyone seems to be waiting to take a dive but refuses to do so? Bassick no chance against Trinity? Norwalk no chance against St. Joseph, or Bridgeport Central no chance against Ridgefield.
What has made this season more compelling are a number of trends that have served like individual chapters to a book that is now half complete. It started on opening night, when St. Joseph defeated Ridgefield in a game that very well could have been a preview of next month's championship game.
Most people will find it hard to believe that the Cadets, with their storied history, have won just one league title since joining the FCIAC two decades ago. That is one more trophy than Ridgefield has in its own showcase.
Trinity, one of the state's top powers the last 15 years, was supposed to be a middle dweller this winter. That was before Schadrac Casimir became a prime time player, averaging 27.3 points a game -- with one stunning 50-point performance in a double overtime win against Greenwich -- and Brandon Wheeler made the jump from role player to playing a lead role.
Imagine a Trinity Catholic-St. Joseph final. It would be welcome by the non-partisan fans who last week made the mistake of attending Hillhouse-Fairfield Prep and missed out on the game of the year, an instant classic, with the Cadets overcoming 5-point deficits at the end of regulation and overtime to come away with a thrilling 87-85 win.
A rematch would be welcome by everyone except the many people who want the two schools shuttled to a separate Catholic league that doesn't -- and never will -- exist in Connecticut.
Westhill, one of the most interesting case studies, hardly gets mentioned despite an undefeated record in league play. Quick quiz: name one Viking player. Can't? You aren't alone.
And that is actually one of Westhill's strengths. This year's edition has better chemistry than any of its teams in recent memory and plays a stifling pressure defense that fuels an efficient transition game.
Can the Vikings go all the way? They turn the ball over too often, but they managed to defeat a solid Central team, improbably, despite 32 turnovers. Are they for real? They finish the season with, in order, Trinity Catholic, St. Joseph and Ridgefield. Stay tuned.
If Westhill is the best team we aren't hearing about, Ridgefield runs a close second. Surely the pundits haven't been scared off by a pair of losses to good teams by the preseason favorite. And Norwalk, at 9-3, is lurking about without much fanfare.
Bassick has hit a slump, but is anyone willing to write off the two-time defending champion, with a penchant for hitting its stride in February?
This is the year we have to take a look at schools usually not in the conversation. How about Wilton, the FCIAC's mad bombers, living and dying by the 3-point shot? The Warriors are 6-2 since an 0-3 start.
Staples, considered a solid 4-6 seed in December, lost much of its bandwagon after a 3-5 start, but is now riding a three-game winning streak.
Fairfield Ludlowe has mastered the art of dictating tempo to the point that it is just one game out of a league playoff berth.
There may not be any high Division I level players in the league this season -- that is usually the case -- but a number worth making the trip to see on a Friday night. Casimir's explosiveness; the high intensity of St. Joseph's Quincy McKnight and Jake Pelletier; Ridgefield's Mr. Consistency, Kurt Steidl; Westhill's super-soph, Jeremiah Livingston; to players like Staples' Peter Rankowitz, New Canaan's Andrew Read, Danbury's Danyjoel Harris and Darien's Matt Staubi, who tend to carry their schools.
FCIAC boys basketball doesn't stink this year, unless you long for a dominant team or two rolling over the league. It is, like global-warming weather, unpredictable.
Until it is over, we don't know how that final chapter is going to end.
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Commodity Futures – CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures-exchange owner, is closing its wheat-trading pit in Kansas City today, ending a 157-year run, before shifting transactions next week to the Chicago Board of Trade.
CME acquired the Kansas City Board of Trade in October for $126 million, gaining control of a wheat-futures market that was the largest in the world behind the CBOT. With most Kansas City contracts already bought and sold on CME's Globex electronic system, the company elected to halt face-to-face transactions in the city, where trading began in 1856.
Pit traders in Chicago will be able to buy and sell Kansas City futures face to face starting July 1, according to the exchange. The contracts are for high-protein, hard, red winter wheat used to make bread. Chicago futures are for soft, red winter wheat used mostly in cookies and cakes.
"There are more people that trade in Chicago and have the rights to trade all the different contracts, so if you stick the KCBT contract in there and make it part of the menu, you might pick up people who previously hadn't been trading Kansas City wheat," William Tierney, the chief economist at AgResource Co. in Chicago, said in a telephone interview.
Trading has migrated to Globex from the pits, where buyers and sellers shout orders and use hand signals. Of the 11.1 million trades on the CBOT in the first five months of 2013, open outcry accounted for 152,315, or 1.4 percent, exchange data show. In Kansas City, 7 percent of wheat trades occurred in the pit, Damon Leavell, a CME spokesman, said by telephone, without giving exact figures.
The price of Chicago futures has tumbled 13 percent this year as the government forecasts record global production. Kansas City futures are down almost 16 percent.
Starting next week, Chicago pit traders will be able to buy and sell KCBT weekly wheat options, KCBT-CBOT wheat-spread options and Minneapolis Grain Exchange-KCBT wheat-spread options, according to the CME. (CME)
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A five-year agreement between the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and France's famed Musee du Louvre could bring priceless works of art to the Bay Area.
Museum officials said the pact will allow for an exchange of antiquities, paintings, sculptures and other objects between the institutions. The Fine Arts Museums operate the Palace of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museum in San Francisco.
"The accord will not only bring forth new scholarship through the collaboration of our colleagues, but it will also give our visitors the opportunity to see great works of art from both museums in ways that would otherwise not be possible," said Richard Benefield, Fine Arts Museums' deputy director, in a statement.
The agreement includes exhibitions, art conservation projects and public education programs.
Specific works of art to be loaned have not been identified. The Louvre's holdings include Western masterpieces such as "Winged Victory of Samothrace," the "Venus de Milo" and Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the "Mona Lisa."
The Legion of Honor on Saturday will open an exhibition organized by the Louvre. "Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette," which features decorative arts once owned by French royalty. Museum officials say the exhibit and partnership is the result of discussions begun nearly two years ago between Henri Loyrette, director of the Louvre and late Fine Arts Musems director John Buchanan.
The de Young and Legion of Honor have in recent years showcased other famous works of art loaned by European museums.
In 2011, the de Young hosted more than 100 paintings, sculptures and other objects by artist Pablo Picasso from the Musee National Picasso in Paris.
In January, the de Young will display painter Johannes Vermeer's famous "Girl with the Pearl Earring," in a display of Dutch Golden Age paintings on loan from Holland's Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. The painting was last exhibited in the United States in 1995 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Who's thinking cyclocross! I am! I am! In fact, I never stop thinking about it. I just watched the 2000 Worlds again for the zillionth time last night. Love watching Groovy-daal work the mud. In other words, I watch and study 'cross as an obsession. Rewinding again and again and again to see how Ik Sven takes a line with insanely low tire pressure in the Dugasts; *or* how Erwin ports the bike Belgie style, finessing the bike on to his shoulder and arm around the head tube in such syncopation you need to see it in slow motion; *or* how De Clercq stutter steps his muddy climbs to conserve energy.
It's all in the details and that's where cross races are won and lost.
So, what makes a cross rider great? Technical savvy. I love putting pain to roadies who fumble through 'cross courses like a deer trying to walk across ice. 'Cross, if you haven't figured it out yet, is a game of not only sheer maintenance of power but also of utter grace. The power keeps you at the front but the grace ensures it is damn near impossible to bridge to you.
Technical savvy off the bike is what makes the best cross riders the best. And to be specific, it's the barriers that above all are the bottleneck and gating factor (no pun intended) to those desiring a podium spot. When you can flow effortlessly through the barriers and reduce all amounts of friction through your transition and get back on the bike fluidly, folks without those same skills fumble, waste energy and when they finally remount and get going again, they have to add those additional watts of power to get back on your wheel. Compound that wattage expenditure over the course of 60 minutes and those without your barrier skills have burned WAY too many matches.
So, how do you get better? Practice, dummy. And to practice you need barriers. Back in the day, we used to drive our cars to a schoolyard and pull out wooden boards we'd made. That is retarded, and this will enable you to be mobile by bike, carry 'em in a back pack and have LOTS of barriers as well to set up multiples. So in my quest to make American 'crossers LOOK way better than our stereotypical bumbling selves, behold my secret plans.
What do you need?
For 4 complete barriers you need:
- 16 22" sections of 1/2" PVC tubing (for the top bars).
- 16 18" sections of same 1/2" PVC tubing (for the legs). NOTE: you may want to go as high as 19" for a bit more height on the leg tubes. The 18" tubes are high but just slightly lower than the UCI height.
- 8 3-way joins for 1/2 tubing (buy extra 'cause they break)
- 12 2-way joins for 1/2 tubing (buy extra 'cause they break too)
I bought all this stuff at the local hardware store for like $20 bucks. I had them cut it there into the section lengths specified above. This is what the 2 and 3 way sections look like (the 2 way on the left, 3 way on the right). You can find them near the PVC tube section in your hardware store.
I drafted up a little diagram for y'all in Visio to show you how this stuff fits together:
When you get them all cut up, throw some stickers on the long top sections. This makes it SUPER easy when you get to your course site and pull 'em out of your back pack to know which are the top and which are the leg tubes. They all fit nicely into a backpack as follows:
And when you are at your site, set 'em up (takes about 2 minutes) and begin your practicing to dominate the competition! RM'ers training using the port-o-barriers in action:


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