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Executes continuously, monitoring your security system activity to record the actual security definitions that the system is or is not using.
Mainframe security databases accumulate obsolete user IDs and entitlement definitions which may be valid but not appropriate for an individual's role. This creates uncertainty, risk and greater potential for security exposure. It also creates an unnecessary burden for administrators and the system. More so, increasing regulatory, statutory, audit and staffing pressures are bringing new concerns and mandates to address the problem of excessive security entitlements. This is why CA Cleanup is needed.
Executes continuously, monitoring your security system activity to record the actual security definitions that the system is or is not using.
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CHICAGO -- Two major trade shows have extended their commitments to Chicago's mammoth McCormick Place.
City officials announced Monday that the National Restaurant Association has signed a multi-year agreement that will keep its show at McCormick Place through 2021. They also announced that the International Manufacturing Technology Show has renewed its commitment for 2018 and 2020.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office hailed the agreements and noted that two critical union deals involving McCormick Place have been made since the mayor took office.
Restaurant association president Dawn Sweeney says the labor reforms made the agreement possible.
City officials estimate the trade shows multi-year commitments will bring an additional $1 billion to the area economy.

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Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at 9:00pm Eastern Time
What do you think are the best medical blogs out there (besides mine - HA!)? We'll be joined by Nick Genes from the 2007 Medgadget Medical Weblog Awards. We'll also be making our predictions for the medical blogosphere for 2008. See you tonight! (What do you think of my video promo piece above?)
For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners:*Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.
*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Click to Listen" button. Then, of course, press the "Click to Listen" button.
*You can also participate in the live chat room before, during, and after the show. Look for the "Chat Available" button in the upper right hand corner of my show site. If you are registered with the BTR site, your registered name and picture will appear in the chat room. (If not, you will be designated as "guest")
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Globally, CA Application Performance Management reduced the time it takes to isolate the root cause of a poor response time or error by 40 percent.
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Orange has been offering communication services for more than 20 years. Today it provides mobile and landline telecommunications and broadband services to 244 million retail and business customers around the globe.
With eight million Facebook fans and 100,000 followers on Twitter, an excellent customer experience is a strategic priority for Orange. But the performance of some applications on Orange.com was not up to par.
CA Application Performance Management plays a critical role in ensuring the overall quality of Orange's applications. It helps Orange assess the risk associated with an application prior to its release into a given environment.
Orange can deliver the excellent online experience expected by today's increasingly connected customers with better reliability, availability and faster response times.
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Okay people, succulents are officially cool :) I've ranted about them before, but the longer they're around the more they're able to surprise me.
As I said in my previous post about succulents: I don't know a lot about plants. I just know that I'm able to keep succulents alive, which is all I really need ;) So a few months ago 'something' started to grow out of one of our larger succulent plants, and - of course - I didn't know what the hell it was. I had seen smaller succulents grow out of larger ones, so at first I thought that was happening again. Yet the 'thing' kept growing, and growing, and growing... and didn't look at all like the larger succulent.
For the sake of experiment I just let it be...
... until it looked like something from another planet!
And this weekend, it was finally revealed what was growing out of our succulent plant.
They're freakin' flowers!!
How insanely cool is that?! :) They´re so pretty and I had such a blast photographing them!
So yeah. Succulents. A plant weird enough to cause a geek out.
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CONCACAF'S Mission
Develop, promote and manage football throughout the region with integrity, transparency, and passion in order to inspire participation in the game.
CONCACAF services 41 member associations through offices located in Miami, New York, and Guatemala City, and is composed of a Congress, the CONCACAF Council, General Secretariat, several committees and judicial bodies.
CONCACAF -- formed in 1961 from the merger of the Football Confederation of Central America and the Caribbean (CCCF) and the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) -- consists of three sub-regions: North America (3 Member Associations under the regional entity North American Football Union – NAFU- which is non-operational), Central America (7 Member Associations under the regional entity Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol - UNCAF), and the Caribbean (31 Member Associations under the regional entity Caribbean Football Union - CFU).
At the CONCACAF Ordinary Congress held on April 19, 2013, in Panama City, Panama, five National Associations that previously held Associate Member status -- French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Sint Maarten -- became full members. Moreover, the island of Bonaire was accepted by the congress as an Associate Member.
As the administrative body for the region, CONCACAF manages competitions, offers technical and administrative training courses, while also actively promoting and developing football.
Even though the biennial Gold Cup for full national teams and the annual Scotiabank Champions League for clubs are CONCACAF's most visible competitions, the confederation organizes championships at the under-17 under-20 levels for men and women that lead to direct qualification for FIFA competitions. It also supports FIFA in coordinating qualifying tournaments for the World Cup, the Women's World Cup and Olympic Games, plus the Beach Soccer and Futsal World Cups.


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Lackluster: The legacy of the 112th
The 112th Congress came in with a bang, but it is crawling out with the soft whimper of failure.
For two years, President Barack Obama and Congress ignored virtually every other pressing matter to engage in an ideological war over the size of government and who should foot the bill for it.
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They racked up more processes than policies: a blue-ribbon White House commission, Vice President Joe Biden's working group, bilateral talks between Obama and Speaker John Boehner, a "supercommittee," a "Gang of Six" that became a "Gang of Eight" and, finally, Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) coming to a deal that leaves open as many politically thorny issues as it solves.
They didn't even hit their deadline. The Senate voted two hours past the zero mark of midnight on New Year's morning, and House Republicans spent most of Tuesday wrangling with each other over whether and how to move forward — with a final late-night vote that passed the Senate bill on the strength of a majority of House Democrats and a minority of House Republicans. Their uncertainty was a stark reminder of how fractious the House majority has been over the past two years. After all, the bill had just passed the Senate with all but five Republicans supporting it.
The deal isn't a pure punt: Obama got a scaled-back version of the tax hike he sought on the campaign trail, with the two sides agreeing to set $450,000 — rather than the $250,000 he wanted — as the income threshold at which tax rates would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. Republicans won by locking in the vast majority of the Bush tax cuts in a "permanent" fashion rarely seen on Capitol Hill. Moreover, they compromised on provisions that resolved for the long term the rates taxpayers will pay on capital gains, dividends, estates and alternative minimum taxes.
But the measure took two steps back for each step forward. It forestalled the "sequester" spending cuts that the president and Congress agreed to in the summer of 2011. More glaring, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the deal would add $3.9 trillion to the debt over the next decade because of lost revenue from locking in rates on individual income, estates and investment, as well as renewing tax breaks for individuals and corporations. The bargain was so chock full of goodies, including the extension of a tax cut for NASCAR track owners, that the Senate, after two years of stalemate on budget matters, gave it 89 votes.
"It's such a sad kick-the-can-down-the-road solution. We had all hoped to do something of great magnitude and put this issue behind us," said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). "This is again us not living up to our responsibilities."
Corker said he was so upset at watching "paint dry" in the Senate that he thought seriously about not seeking re-election this year "just because of the lack of productivity."
"We're not solving our nation's problems. People hide from tough decisions," he said. "So it's been very disappointing."


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Low-income Michiganians face food assistance cut in November
In Michigan, 1.8 million low-income people will see their food assistance cut when a temporary boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) expires Nov. 1, new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show.1 SNAP benefits will average less than $1.40 per person per meal after the cut.
The cut will affect more than 47 million Americans, including 22 million children, who receive SNAP, known as the Food Assistance Program in Michigan. For a family of three, that cut will amount to $29 a month. That's a serious loss given SNAP's already low benefit levels and the very low incomes of SNAP participants — more than 80% of SNAP households live in poverty.
In Michigan, the benefit cut through October 2014 will total $183 million, slowing economic growth by reducing overall consumption. Nationally, the cut will total roughly $5 billion in federal fiscal year 2014 and an additional $6 billion across fiscal years 2015 and 2016.
Despite continuing high poverty and unemployment, Michigan has cut programs aimed at helping families through hard times. Lifetime limits on cash assistance and an asset test on food assistance have resulted in lower caseloads while a reduction in the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit means working families are having a more difficult time making ends meet. Michigan also shortened its traditional period of unemployment from 26 weeks to 20 weeks yet the state's June unemployment rate of 8.7% remains above the national rate of 7.6%. Michigan's poverty rate of 17.5% is also above the national average.
Benefit Increase Designed to Boost Economy and Ease Hardship
Congress enacted the benefit increase as part of the 2009 Recovery Act to deliver high "bang-for-the-buck" economic stimulus and ease hardship. The Recovery Act boosted SNAP's maximum monthly benefits by 13.6% beginning in April 2009. It provided that SNAP benefit levels would continue at the new, higher amount until SNAP's regular annual inflation adjustments to the maximum benefit exceeded the Recovery Act amount. But Congress has since voted to accelerate the sunset of the benefit increase to Oct. 31 of this year.
The scheduled benefit cuts are especially painful in light of the inadequacy of existing benefit levels. In a report issued by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, nutrition experts identified several shortcomings with the current SNAP benefit allotment and recommended evaluating ways of changing the benefit calculation to better ensure that households have enough resources to purchase an adequate diet.2
Benefit Cuts Will Increase Hardship
These cuts will likely cause hardship for many SNAP participants, who will include 22 million children in 2014 (10 million of whom live in "deep poverty," with family incomes below half the poverty line) and 9 million people who are elderly or have a serious disability. In Michigan, 1.8 million participate in the program — that's one in six residents.
USDA has found that the Recovery Act's benefit boost reduced the number of households in which one or more persons had to skip meals or otherwise eat less because they lacked money — what USDA calls "very low food security" — by about 500,000 households in 2009.3 More recent research finds that boosting SNAP benefits during the summer for households with school-aged children who don't have access to USDA's summer food program cut very low food security among these households by nearly 20%.4
Given this research and the inadequacy of current benefit levels, we can reasonably assume that a reduction in SNAP benefit levels of this size will significantly increase the number of poor households that have difficulty affording adequate food this fall.
Evidence Doesn't Support Argument for Cutting SNAP
The Obama Administration and some members of Congress have proposed delaying or cancelling the Nov. 1 cut, but Congress has taken no action on these proposals. Moreover, some in Congress have called for deep cuts in SNAP on top of the scheduled cut. The House of Representatives, which recently defeated legislation that would have cut $20 billion from SNAP — eliminating food assistance for nearly 2 million people — could reconsider these or even deeper cuts in the coming weeks.
Supporters of large SNAP cuts claim that because SNAP enrollment hasn't declined in tandem with the unemployment rate over the past few years, the program's enrollment growth in recent years is largely unrelated to the poor economy. In reality, however, the recent reductions in the unemployment rate overstate the improvements in the labor market, as Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke has observed.5 The proportion of the adult population with a job — the employment rate — has barely improved since the recession bottomed out.
In addition, the number of unemployed workers not receiving unemployment benefits — the group of the unemployed most likely to qualify for SNAP because they have neither wages nor UI benefits — has continued to grow and is higher now than at the bottom of the recession. Also, the historical record shows that declines in poverty and SNAP enrollment typically lag behind declines in the unemployment rate following recessions.
1 For more detail on the scheduled cut, see Stacy Dean and Dorothy Rosenbaum, "SNAP Benefits Will Be Cut for All Participants in November 2013, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 1, 2013, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3899.
2 Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy, The National Academy Press, 2013, http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/Supplemental-Nutrition-Assistance-Program-Examining-the-Evidence-to-Define-Benefit-Adequacy.aspx.
3 Mark Nord and Mark Prell, "Food Security of SNAP Recipients Improved Following the 2009 Stimulus Package," Amber Waves, 9(2), June 2011, p. 6, http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/227714/foodsecuritysnap_1_.pdf.
4 Evaluation of the Impact of Enhancement Demonstrations on Participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP): FY 2011; FNS, USDA, November 2012, http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/menu/Published/CNP/FILES/SEBTC_Year1Findings.pdf.
5 "Bernanke Talks: A Conversation at the NBER," Real Time Economics, Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2013, http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/07/11/bernanke-talks-a-conversation-at-the-nber/.


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We are very lucky to have a terrific team of dedicated, self-motivated, conscientious employees. These folks can always be depended on to show up on time, do a remarkable job on some very tedious, detail-oriented work, and provide the feedback we need to keep this show on the road. All the content you see online is due to the hard work of Jeremiah, our staff and our students.
Whenever you see these great results, think of the work that went into this, and the terrific folks here behind all that work!
Head of Digital Services: Jody DeRidder [LinkedIn]
Digitization Manager: Jeremiah Colonna-Romano
Full Time Staff:
- Jessica Anderson - Repository Manager
- Austin Dixon - Digitization Technologist [LinkedIn]
- Kate Matheny - Digitization Outreach Coordinator [email]
- Nitin Arora left us in spring of 2011 for a position at NCSU Libraries as NC LIVE Digital Projects Librarian. We miss him!!
- Amanda Presnell left us in June 2012, as her family moved to Ohio. We miss her, and wish her all the best!
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They've moved on to bigger and better things but we like to hang onto their pages to remember them by.
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The Pokédex 3D Pro hit the Japanese Nintendo eShop for the 3DS. In the above clip, YouTube user NintenDaan1 takes the app for a quick test drive. Priced at ¥1,500 (US$19), the app is a Black 2 and White 2 Pokédex packed with info., 3D models, quizzes, and an AR mode. It will hit the West later this fall.
In the clip below, YouTube user LucarioPlayer14 puts the app, which isn't Japanese language only, through its paces. He notes that the app is handy, but the price "seems kind of outrageous for something we can look up on the internet." Note that the AR mode, however, isn't exactly something you can do on the internet for free. Noted!
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Internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first person look into his studio and methods. Both a piece of art in its own right and a recording of Sachs' historic piece, Space Program 2.0: MARS, which opened at New York's Park Avenue Armory in 2012, A Space Program is a captivating introduction to Sachs' work for the uninitiated and required viewing for his longtime fans. Documenting Sachs and his team as they build an entire space program from scratch, ultimately sending two female astronauts to Mars in search of the answer to humankind's ultimate question… are we alone?
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Owkeeee....well... i have no words to decribe this really, just a question...
These people are not the same species as us right ? right ?
Must be a different branch in our evolutionary past i'm sure.
Here's a nasty image, what if heaven was real and these guys went there to perform for god and all the believers hehe, then hell does'nt sounds like a bad place at all :)
"Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people."
These people are not the same species as us right ? right ?
Must be a different branch in our evolutionary past i'm sure.
Laughing (snort).
I don't know anyone else looked but there's another link to "Christian Side Hug (Part 2)" in the description, and, I have to say, they really one-upped themselves with that one. It's actually offensive. But I still can't help but laugh at how ridiculous it all is. My favorite quote from part two would have to be, "any kind of hug is a gateway hug." Please enjoy if you haven't already.
I thought the mock driveby at the end sounded like a sweet release after hearing this.
Part 2 wasnt real, and therefore no where near as painful LOL
Holy Crap!!!
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Fabio Capello has come out in defence of John Terry after the Chelsea defender was stripped of the England captaincy by the FA.
This has caused much debate in the press today, so GMF has decided to hear both sides of the opinion divide.
GMF writers Pete South and Brendan Simpson will be putting forward the arguments as to why Capello was correct in publicly supporting Terry, or indeed why he was wrong to do so.
Capello was right - Pete South
The last time I checked, Fabio Capello was the manager of England, and as such has certain privileges.
He can, for example, pick the players who represent England, and gets to sit in the comfiest seat in the dugout whenever they play.
Best of all though, he gets to decide who will captain the team he choses to play for England as he has done throughout his entire time in charge of this nation obsessed equally with scandal as it is the faux importance of a football captain.
So why is he being admonished for telling the world what most of us already knew, that he disagreed with the F.A's decision to remove John Terry as England captain?
Capello had little to do with the decision making process, as was made abundantly clear in the various press releases and videos put out by the F.A.
It is the F.A who have made a mess in their handling of the situation, not Capello, so he is well within his rights to air his grievances at a decision that will directly impact upon his chances on guiding England to glory at the European Championships.
Capello proved before with the removal of Terry as captain that he is not prone to favouritism or having his judgment clouded by emotion, so the fact the decision was taken out of his hands was rightly met by his public remarks that distanced himself from the whole debacle. After all, he'll be unemployed by the summer, and who would want that PR disaster on their CV?
What is wrong with Capello being honest that the decision wasn't his? Most people knew already this wasn't the case and surely the Italian is 100% correct in his assumption that no man should be punished before he is found guilty in court?
That is not to say I do agree or disagree with the decision to remove Terry, merely that it is surely Capello who should have the final say when it is his neck on the line? And when it is perfectly clear he is frustrated at such a key issue going over his head a few months before a major tournament, why shouldn't he be able to express himself?
Capello's stubborn resoluteness is one of the chief traits of his character that have made him successful over the years. It may not be to everyone's liking, but he has gone about his business in the only manner he knows how, and in the process given a refreshingly honest insight into how he saw things as England manager. Since when did that become a bad thing?
Capello was wrong - Brendan Simpson
Fabio Capello was wrong to publicly come out in support of John Terry.
He was wrong not only in deciding to tell a TV station his belief that the FA had made the incorrect decision, but also with his interpretation of their decision.
Capello is not alone in his misinterpretation; many have voiced similar feelings to him over the decision by English football's governing body.
The FA said that they were stripping Terry of the captaincy until his court case is resolved on July 9 this year.
Capello's backing of Terry is based around the justice principle that states all those accused of a crime are innocent until proven guilty.
While this is not something that can be criticised, goodness knows it should be the case, the Italian has made a mistake in using this principle as a criticism of the FA's decision.
"No, absolutely not. I spoke with the chairman and I told him I don't think someone can be punished unless it [the charge] is proven," he told Italian television station Rai 1.
"The court will decide. It is going to be civil justice, not sports justice, to decide if John Terry committed the crime that he is accused of.
"I thought it was fair that John Terry should keep the captain's armband."
What punishment? What 'sports justice', as he calls it, has decided Terry has committed the crime? There has been nothing of the sort.
Capello has gotten lost in the hyperbole that surrounds this issue and has fallen in the same trap as many others.
Terry has not been condemned by the FA, nor has been deemed guilty of the alleged offence. In fact, the FA explicitly said in their statement that the decision was in no way reflective of a belief that he may be guilty.
This is because he is innocent until proven guilty and it is why they have merely said to him that they do not think it appropriate he should be the leader of a team while still being charged with an offence that could seriously damage the atmosphere of the England dressing room.
Innocent until proven guilty is a principle that should be saved for law and liberty, not for an argument over who should wear a red or yellow elasticated band around their arm while playing a football match.
If a person is accused of racially abusing another in a workplace, management in most companies would almost certainly decide to suspend the accused pending an investigation.
This would be perfectly normal in most other walks of life but it seems reality is suspended when it comes to football.
The fact that the England captaincy is such a high profile and revered position in this country (and not many others at that) makes the FA decision even more sensible.
Capello has set out his stall on unstable foundations and has compounded the seriousness of him openly defying his employers.
This says nothing about the mood in the dressing room, where some players could be uncomfortable having someone who is accused of such a serious offence being appointed as their chosen leader.
After the debacle of World Cup 2010 you would think the former Juventus boss would be keen to have as much harmony in the England camp as possible – a harmony that could be jeopardised by his stance
Capello should be praised for standing by his convictions and giving an honest opinion, which is something that many in the modern game are reluctant to do.
However, his convictions in this case are based around an indisputable, essential axiom of civil liberty and therefore misplaced.News Now - Sport News


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Tigers, Twins have differing views of rainout
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander isn't thrilled that he got Sunday off, but he had no choice.
Verlander was scheduled to start for the Tigers against Minnesota before the game was postponed because of heavy rain. No makeup date has been announced.
Verlander (3-1) has won nine straight decisions against the Twins. He's also 4-0 with a 1.89 ERA in six starts at Target Field.
The dominating right-hander is now scheduled to pitch Tuesday's night series opener in Chicago against the White Sox after a week off.
"I just feel like five days is enough time where every time I go out there it's boom, boom, boom. It's like muscle memory, it's getting in there," Verlander said. "We've had so many off-days, we've had a plethora of six-day rests and I absolutely don't want it."
Neither does Detroit manager Brad Ausmus.
"The off-days and the rain days has killed our rotation," Ausmus said. The Tigers have had three postponed games and three off-days in the season's first month.
"No one can get any type of rhythm," he added. "Guys are going on five days' rest, four days' rest, six days' rest. … Rhythm gets you in a comfort zone mentally."
On the plus side, Detroit's bullpen got a much-needed rest. Three relievers logged a combined 5 1-3 innings in Saturday's 5-3 defeat after starter Anibal Sanchez left in the third inning with a blister on his right middle finger. Sanchez was put on the 15-day disabled list.
The Tigers' bullpen has a collective 5.65 ERA, having allowed 41 earned runs in 65 1-3 innings.
"It's good in a sense that in the last couple days our bullpen has been taxed and now everyone gets two days off. … We have enough guys that could use rest," Ausmus said, citing Phil Coke, Jose Ortega and Al Alburquerque as examples.
Closer Joe Nathan, who pitched Friday, said the rest is nice, but the relievers probably don't need two days off.
"Tomorrow would have been plenty of time to recover for Tuesday. Then we have another off day on Thursday," he said. "We'd have rather gotten this in because we still got to make this thing up, meaning a doubleheader or playing on a day off."
Scheduled Minnesota starter Kyle Gibson (3-1) has been pushed back to Tuesday, when the Twins are to open a three-game set against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers. That game could be in doubt, however, because the forecast calls for rain in the Twin Cities through Tuesday.
Gibson will be looking to rebound after allowing seven earned runs on 10 hits in three innings Tuesday in Tampa Bay. In his first three starts, Gibson allowed just two earned runs in 19 1-3 innings for an 0.93 ERA.
"If your starter is going deep, everything seems to work out with your pen, you can do your match ups and everything. We need starters to step up," manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Phil Hughes did just that Saturday, throwing a much-needed seven strong innings. It was just the team's second quality start in nine games – both by Hughes. Minnesota starters have a cumulative 6.04 ERA and have averaged less than six innings per start.
"We were very limited yesterday," Gardenhire said. "We've thrown a lot of innings out of our pen the last week, we were trying to get through that game and we desperately needed Hughes to do what he did."
NOTES: This is the 10th rainout in Target Field history and second this season. … Minnesota 3B Trevor Plouffe, who left Saturday's game with a bruised left triceps after being hit by a pitch, was scheduled to start. … Detroit C Alex Avila was going to return to the Tigers' lineup. He hurt his shin sliding into home plate on Friday. … Both teams are off Monday. … Minnesota is scheduled to face the Dodgers' Zack Greinke (4-0, 2.45) on Tuesday. … Chicago's Jose Quintana (1-2, 3.90) is scheduled to start against Detroit on Tuesday.


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Jay Carney's blues
President Barack Obama brought in press secretary Jay Carney "to lower the temperature" in the briefing room back in 2011, but reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney's demeanor and the veracity of some answers to questions about recent administration scandals.
Carney, as laid back in private as he is buttoned-down in public, has clashed with the White House press corps repeatedly over the past few days as he struggled to address tangled official narratives on the Internal Revenue Service probe of tea party groups and the administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.
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Testy West Wing exchanges are nothing new — Carney's predecessor, Robert Gibbs, was especially fond of rhetorical brawling. But Carney's latest dustup with the media, a particularly contentious Tuesday briefing, exposed long-simmering tensions between a presidential spokesman who often questions reporters' motives and a press pack who regard him as unwilling or unable to deliver straight answers.
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In that regard, Carney is discovering what spokesmen from Ron Ziegler to Mike McCurry to Scott McClellan learned on their watches: It's a press secretary's job to take responsibility for wrong answers even when the bad information came from somebody else.
"The No. 1 thing is to not be an albatross around the president. Your job in working with the administration is [to help] the president. It used to be people would resign constantly because they felt they weren't helping the president anymore," said Douglas Brinkley, a scholar of the presidency who has attended several White House dinners for presidential historians with Obama and conducted interviews with both him and Vice President Joe Biden for Rolling Stone magazine.
"He's on that line right now, he's got to be a believable spokesperson to the press and you can feel that there is a lot of anger towards him," Brinkley, a professor at Rice University, said of Carney. "Some of it is professional jealousy and some of it is he made a blunder on the way he talked about Benghazi and the IRS. … He's done a good job, but all I'm suggesting is that everybody has to know when to move aside, and he's at the cusp point right now."
Carney's job is not in danger — he still has Obama's support. He's earning points internally for "catching arrows" in public instead of holding more off-camera backgrounders. In the words of one senior White House official Carney has chosen to stand "up there, alone, like a professional."
Carney told The New York Times last week that he finds the job "enjoyable," adding, "For me personally, it has been a good week."
( Also on POLITICO: W.H. expands on IRS timeline)
But if Carney is having fun, he's in the minority. Obama's top aides have been laboring to get ahead of unexpected scandal and create a credible narrative after weeks of drip-drip revelations exacerbated, at times, by answers from Carney that critics perceive as confusing, evasive or just flat wrong — especially his disputed assertion that White House officials made only "stylistic" changes to Benghazi talking points.
"It takes a long time inside a complicated organization like the White House to figure out what everybody knew," said former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala, adding that Carney hasn't "intentionally misled, but from time to time journalists get stuff wrong and from time to time press secretaries don't have all the facts."


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In the midst of a pro tennis world chock-full of players with overwhelming athletic skills and underwhelming personalities, there is Li Na.
She is a beacon in the fog, a candle in a mine shaft.
She is also a pretty good tennis player who is ranked No. 2 and advanced routinely Wednesday to the third round at Wimbledon. She beat Yvonne Meusburger of Austria in a nice 6-2, 6-2 workout, and the expectations of more big things to come from her here were enhanced.
And why not?
She has won two major titles, the 2011 French Open and this year's Australian Open, and seems poised for more. Even though she is 32, she appears to be flourishing both physically and mentally under the guidance of her coach of the last two years, Carlos Rodriguez.
He was the brain trust behind the now retired Justine Henin and her seven major titles.
Wednesday, as Rodriguez dashed from Li's match to scout her next opponent, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic, it was clear that his well-known attention to detail as well as his well-known reputation as a firm taskmaster are a major part of Team Li Na.
"The tactics were to start the ball [the rally] in the middle of the court," he said. "She was supposed to be focused on that, and she was … most of the time. She is No. 2 in the world, so I expect she can stay with correct tactics for an entire match. Of course, sometimes she doesn't."
If that makes Li unpredictable, thank goodness. The drone of the tour and its all too often bland participants makes somebody who regularly rejects the norm to be of great appeal.
After her win Wednesday, she was asked whether she liked grass courts or clay courts better.
"Hard courts," she said.
She was asked if she was concerned about the number of unforced errors she made in her match.
"But I had a lot of winners too, right?"
This news conference was just a light once-over of Li. There are always quips, even though she is presenting them in a language very different from hers, and to an audience that is very different from herself. What she says is never formatted by habit or sanitized by some agent. Who she is is what you get. Always.
Remember, this is a Chinese woman who has a tattoo. On her chest. You don't have to wonder how that plays in the Communist Politburo.
This is a woman who, years ago, split from the Chinese tennis federation, which was taking out as much as 65% of her winnings, and went on her own. Some $15 million later, that makes her look like Warren Buffett.
The world beyond China probably began to take notice of this wonderfully quirky woman after her on-court interview that followed her victory in the 2011 Australian semifinals. As we hip columnists are fond of saying, it went viral on YouTube.
She was asked how she felt going into the match, and said she didn't get much sleep because "my husband slept like …" (she made the classic snoring noise). The interviewer followed up surprisingly well, asking, since she was not well rested, what motivated her in the match. "Prize money," she said.
Then, this year after her Aussie title, she did it again.
Speaking to the crowd in the victory ceremony, she looked at her team box, thanked them all for their support and said to her husband, "Thanks for everything, for just traveling around with me to be my hitting partner. Fix the drinks. Fix the racket. You do a lot of jobs. So thanks a lot. You are a nice guy. Also, you are lucky to find me."
The crowd in Rod Laver Stadium roared. Laughing the hardest was her husband.
His name is Jiang Shan, a former player with pro tour aspirations of his own. He was her main coach for most of her career until Rodriguez took over.
Rodriguez called the team "a happy group. … We have fun, laugh a lot."
When her husband coached her, Li said she heard people talking about their being divorced. She said that was because "we were always shouting at each other."
One newspaper headlined a story about them: "Husband, Coach, Punching Bag."
Now, Rodriguez mediates.
"I say to her husband," Rodriguez said Wednesday, "to not only tell her the things she did wrong, but the things she did right."
As she heads toward later rounds at Wimbledon and the higher profile that comes with that, the Li Na-isms will be recycled, a worthy endeavor at any time:
• Li, on asking her mother to come to watch her play: "She says no. I have my life."
• On when she finally got her mother to come to an exhibition match and she called her afterward to ask what she thought: "Match OK. I'm on my way home now."
• On male Chinese tennis players: "I think they are strong in body, not strong in mind."
• On being unimpressed when called the most popular athlete in China more popular than Yao Ming: "He's retired."
• On the progression from dating to marriage: "Before we were married, I would say to him, 'I'm going shopping,' and he would say, 'OK.' Now, I say I am going shopping and he says, 'Why are you always going shopping?'"
• Her mandate about his snoring: "You put on more weight, you're divorced."
• And her answer to the female flight attendant who said to her, on the trip home after one of her big wins, "Hey, that guy is Li Na's husband": "Yeah, he looks like him. A lot of people say that."
So, if you are looking for a rooting interest as Wimbledon progresses, consider Li Na. Remember, the more she wins, the more she gets to talk.


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More than 45 years ago, Chevrolet introduced the Z/28 option package for its new Camaro, a package that included a high-revving 290-horsepower 302 V-8. It was designed to be competitive in the NASCAR Baby Grands and the Trans-Am series, which had a 5.0-liter, or 305-inch displacement limit.
Eventually, Chevy, Pontiac, Ford, Mercury, Plymouth, Dodge, and American Motors were all in the series up to their necks, and the racing was great. The street versions of all their Trans-Am entries are as collectible today as their big-block muscle car brethren—perhaps moreso.
That was a long time ago, and even with fussy carburetors, crappy 7-inch tires, buggy-spring suspension, and generally sloppy manufacturing, the original Z/28 was still pretty damn great (an original sold last year for $110,000).
Your author was among the very first journalists ever to drive a '67 Z/28, at Cecil Country Dragway in Maryland, and we were impressed at the car's willingness to rev and make midrange power from such a small engine.
Fast forward 47 years and multiple generations of car building and engine science, and you get the 2014 Camaro Z/28, the most capable all-around Camaro ever built. Camaro chief engineer Al Oppenheiser said at the media introduction in Building 100 at the GM Proving Grounds outside of Detroit, "The Z/28 is the icing on the cake for the fifth-generation Camaro. We were militant about not getting the name of the car out. People thought that the Jay Leno SEMA Show turbocharged V-6 was going to be the Z/28. Then they thought the ZL1 was the Z/28. It's got such a historic name, such a hallowed moniker, that we thought the name should come on an appropriate car."
He adds, "I've told our Camaro customers for years that we would never bring back the Z/28 unless we had a car worthy of the name. It's the car that everybody expected, but we're going to show you today that it's the car that no one expects. Now we are venturing off into the land of the GT-Rs, the 911s, and the Murcielagos, and we want this car to set the standard for what a sports-segment car can be. We want you to be able to drive to the track, go smoke everybody, and then drive it home."
The Z/28 is built around an aluminum LS7, Chevy's 427 cubic-inch naturally aspirated V-8 making 505 horsepower at 6100 rpm and 481 lb-ft at 4800 rpm. It's essentially the same engine as the Z06 Corvette, other than intake and exhaust plumbing to accommodate the Camaro body: 11:1 compression, titanium intake valves and connecting rods, CNC-ported heads, forged steel crank and main caps, fat cam profile, and hydroformed headers.
The Z/28's LS7 is also stuffed with Mahle pistons, Pankl coated connecting rods and premium GM parts, including Camaro's first-ever dry-sump oiling system, and a one-of-a-kind K&N air filtration system, installed in a Camaro body unlike any other. The Z/28 carries a total of 190 new and unique parts compared to an SS.
It gets power to the ground with a close-ratio Tremec TR6060 six-speed transmission with double-cone and triple-cone synchros on each gear for lightning shifts, feeding into a Torsen limited-slip differential with helical gears in it that allow individual ABS braking, no preload in corners, and rapid acceleration off the corners. Final drive ratio is 3.91:1. The engine, transmission and diff each have race-quality cooling systems
According to GM designer Tom Peters, who supervised the Z/28 body mods, the Z/28 body has been fitted with a new upper and lower grille assembly for air management, a very deep and very elaborate front spoiler with Gurney lips, an undertray that goes back beyond the engine, an air-extractor hood, wheel flares, side skirts, and a moveable rear spoiler. You won't mistake it for anything else. Chevrolet says the body generates 440 pounds of additional downforce at 150 mph compared to an SS.
Most of the magic in the Z/28 comes from its suspension, brakes, and tires. Front springs are 85 percent stiffer, and rear springs are 65 percent stiffer, with 25 percent stiffer lower trailing-link bushings for lateral stiffness. The lower arm link bushings are 50 percent stiffer up front, with 400 percent stiffer rear upper control arm bushings, with smaller, not larger stabilizer bars, down from 28 mm in front to 25 mm, and 27 mm to 25 mm at the rear. The Z/28 sits lower to the ground than an SS by 33 mm.
For the first time ever, a Chevrolet production car will be fitted with Multimatic DSSV shock units that use patented spool-valve technology instead of shim stacks for wheel control. It's the same Multimatic technology used by the Infiniti Red Bull Formula 1 team, the Acura LMP1 team in ALMS, every car in the German DTM series, and every car in the Ferrari Challenge series.
The Z/28 uses struts up front and aluminum coil/shock units at the rear. Each corner will have five-spoke black alloy wheels shod with gigantic Pirelli Trofeo S 305/30ZR-19. Yes, that's right, 305 front tires. Inside each wheel is a Brembo carbon ceramic brake system, with two-piece rotors, 394 x 36 mm front and 390 x 32 mm rear, with six-piston calipers front and four-piston calipers in the rear for consistent, hour-after-hour braking performance at the track, and lifetime durability of the rotors.
While the new Z/28 is completely street legal and meets all federal requirements, it is as simple as an anvil, and as light as they could make it. There's no noise insulation anywhere. It comes with lightweight rear seats because no one will ever sit in them. The front seats are Recaro lightweight racing seats. There is an AM radio with one speaker in the driver's door, and A/C is a stand-alone option. There are no floor or trunk mats. The 427 engine is 64 pounds lighter than an LSA V-8. The car comes in at 3837 pounds ready to race.
What will it do? For starters, it will generate at least 1.08g on the skidpad, maybe more in final trim. It now holds the lap record at GM's own race track at the Milford Proving Grounds, some .7 seconds quicker than the ZL1 version. And it's substantially quicker than the Mustang Shelby GT500, the Boss 302 Laguna Seca, and the Camaro 1LE package.
Oppenheiser says, "At the Nurburgring, every day at five o'clock, when we could start running, it started to rain. We put on a thousand miles at the Nurburgring, and every one of those laps was under eight minutes, which is incredible. Our fastest lap, 7:37.40, was in the rain, four seconds faster than the ZL1 was, and faster than the published times for the Porsche 911 S and the Lamborghini Murcielago."
He says, "I would put our drivers up against anybody. We ask them to go out in handbuillt cars with first-time suspension settings and first-time engine calibrations, and they are the first ones that need to have the balls to go wide-open-throttle through high-speed essees when nobody else has done it before. It takes a heroic effort in order to make the car what it is."
Where, when and how the new Z/28 Camaro will be raced remains to be seen, especially in light of the merger between the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and the Rolex Grand Am series, which has created the United Sports Car Championship with a new class and rules package for GT cars.
Oppenheiser says, "We're still working on which class and which sanctioning body the Z/28 might fall into. It's more for the weekend racer and private track user. We have the 1LE that runs in SCCA. We're working with Mark Kent and the Performance Group on that. The goal is to offer a track car that a guy can take anywhere and win."
We'd love to tell you what the new Z/28 is like to drive ourselves, but we can't. This time around, for lots of legal reasons, we were only passengers. In our case, we were driven around in the passenger Recaro by young Bill Wise, the vehicle performance engineer who developed the ride, handling and braking of the Z/28 on the Milford Road Course at the GM Proving Grounds.
Vehicle development boss described the course before we went out. "The Milford Road Course is a 2.9-mile road course, and we've taken sections of the best tracks in the world and replicated them here. The car is never in a steady-state mode here. It's always doing something that relies on the suspension system, the braking system, the horsepower or the tire grip."
The course has six major corners and some high-speed esses, some of which are duplicates of corners at the Spring Mountain track in Nevada, a 37-degree banked section, (for reference, Daytona is 31 degrees, Talladega 33 degrees), esses copied from the Nurburgring, substantial elevation changes, and not much straightaway, so that a test driver is turning, braking and accelerating constantly.
In testing, the engineers would run 22 laps, fill the car up with gas, check the tires, and go back out again until 24 hours of full-throttle driving had been accumulated, the equivalent of many, many racetrack sessions for the amateur racer.
In our case, we were given one hot lap in the right seat, and one cooldown lap, and the maneuvers that the new Z/28 can generate in terms of acceleration, braking force and cornering are so violent that Joe had us on the brink of barfing, and our neck hurt for two days after the event from the forces generated inside the car.
The most noticeable difference for us was that Wise was able to wait until a point well past the last braking marker (4-3-2-1) to apply the brakes, the Brembos are so powerful and repeatable. Chevrolet says the braking point has been extended by whopping 238 feet going down into Turn One.
It was a short, scary ride, and a close-to-hurling-chunks ride, but very educational in terms of what this car can do. Next time, we'll be behind the wheel. We won't see the first production car until the end of the first quarter of 2014. It will be available in a build of 3,000-4,000 units over the next couple of years, and is priced at $75,000, including gas guzzler tax and destination—about what you'd pay for a restored first-gen Z/28 at auction, probably less. Air conditioning and six speakers for the stereo are $1,150 extra.
For those who already have a new Camaro, there is some hope of technology transfer. Oppenheiser told us, "Now that we have all these awesome parts, we're working with our GM Performance Parts people to try to make them available for those SS owners who might want to upgrade their cars with some of these parts."


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Kevin Gray knows a few things about the musical "Miss Saigon." After all he played the lead role of The Engineer in the Los Angeles and Toronto productions of the show.
Now as a Hartt School drama faculty member at the University of Hartford, Gray stages the show with students from the music theater program. The musical, with music by Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyrics by Richard Maltby and Alain Boublil, is loosely based on "Madame Butterfly," centering on a young Vietnamese girl and her story of survival in postwar Vietnam and Bangkok.
The production is through with a special arrangement by producer Cameron Mackintosh.
Michael Morris is music director. Choreography is by Ralph Perkins.
The show runs Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 25 to 27 at 7:30 p.m,.; and Sunday, Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. in Lincoln Theatre on the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford.
Tickets $20.
Information: 860-768-4228 and www.hartford.edu/hartt.


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OXFORD, MS – Oxford Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 11th annual film festival to be held in Oxford, Miss. on February 6-9, 2014.
The festival has created a new submission process for the 2014 festival. The festival has created its own online form on its website with flat rates and only two deadlines: September 15, 2013 for "early bird" pricing, and November 15, 2013 for "regular pricing." The reduced costs for both the filmmaker and festival will allow more funds raised by the nonprofit to put toward the event instead of overhead costs.
Early bird pricing begins July 1 to Sept. 15 and is $15 for short films, $30 for feature films and $5 for Mississippi music videos. Regular pricing is from Sept. 16 to Nov. 15 and is $25 for short films, $40 for feature films and $5 for music videos.
Click here for more information.
Fee waivers are only granted to invited films and festival alumni.


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During my second trip upstate in the last three weeks (and after my second Big Day in as many weekends) I was up for some relaxation Sunday, and got it with my family. Of course, for me, relaxation includes watching birds, so the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds coming to my parents' feeders featured prominently in my relaxation plans.
If you look closely at the shot of the female above, taken about two meters from the bird, you can just make out a bit of spider silk on her beak. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds use spider silk when building their nests because it is a strong material that allows the nest to expand as the nestlings grow. Seeing as hummingbirds nest in my parents' yard every year, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that she is already working on her nest for the year.
In the half an hour I spent photographing the hummingbirds a total of three came to the feeders, two females and one male.
The male was extremely aggressive, driving the females away every time he noticed them feeding at what I can only assume he felt were his feeders, while the females seemed to be willing to share.
The feeder above is kind of beat up, both from age and from the abuse heaped upon it by marauding bears and squirrels. My dad has recently received some very nice new feeders but he is hesitant to put them out for fear that they will be destroyed (or he is a bit tired out from digging holes for trees, something I will be posting about soon). Anyway, the feeder above is nice for photography as it allows me to get shots like the one above with a still hummingbird, something I can't get with the feeder in the shot below.
Nonetheless, I am pretty happy about that shot. But not as happy as I am about the one below, the only time I managed to get a picture of a hummingbird flying towards me even close to nicely focused.
Anyway, I highly recommend getting a hummingbird feeder for your backyard, that is, if you have a backyard, and, for that matter, if you live in the Americas. Though if, say, Europeans started putting some feeders up maybe they would be more likely to get some vagrants (get to it Jochen!).
Great Photos Corey!
And as always it was a pleasure to have you in my humble city, seeing good birds and kicking the other teams butts!
I have had over a hundred hummers at one time
in the summer, using 10 one qt. feeders going.
But suddenly I have an extremely aggressive
bully ruby throat hummer who is guarding the
whole 10 feeders scattered thru out the property.
He has even nearly kill one hummer who laid
injured. So I took all feeders down for 3 days and
he still sits on a tree near by protecting the garden.
What can I do? No hummers even fly near now.
Great photos, Corey!
Ruby-throated hummingbirds will nearly double their weight (from about 3.25 grams to 6 grams) before crossing the Gulf of Mexico. A single migration can become a nonstop flight of up to 500 miles over a period of 18 to 22 hours.
Male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds can also be identified by their black face and chin, and their distinctive call notes, and the lack of a wing whistle produced by their wings in flight.
Females are similar to a number of other female hummingbirds. The best way to identify the female Ruby-throated Hummingbird from the Calliope Hummingbird and species in the genus Selasphorus is by their lack of rufous on the flanks and in the tail. Anna's Hummingbirds are larger and have grayer chests, while Costa's Hummingbirds differ only in subtleties of facial pattern and tail pattern. Black-chinned Hummingbird females are essentially identical, and are not safely identifiable from female Ruby-throateds except in the hand. The best way to distinguish the Ruby-throated Hummingbird from all other species of hummingbirds except Black-chinned Hummingbird by their call.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird has a total estimated population of over 7 million individuals. This species of hummingbird was hunted during the nineteenth century for its beautiful plumage, but the Ruby-throated Hummingbird now enjoys protection from harvest through the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This act declares unlawful the taking, killing, or possessing of migratory birds. It is also listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna of 1975.
Well, Corey, you challenged me to comment but honestly, I first have to catch my breath and press my brain's restart button after seeing these pics. The head-on view is unbelievable, I don't think I have ever seen anything like it, especially as it looks as if you got it in mid-flight and not hovering in front of a feeder. Furthermore, the feeder is not visible on the top two images, which is great as I think the plastic always spoils the natural feel to hummingbird pics.
So all in all, I am sorry to say that the quality of your pics has rendered me unable to comment but then again, that may be a good thing.
That head on shot is incredible. Think about sending that into Bird and Bloom, or some other publication. Absolutely stunning.
These pictures are sooooooo amazing!! you have to burn me copies of those pics on a disc so i can frame them in the house. You know me and sean go ga-ga for humming birds!! Plus i think it's long due for some updated pictures of your skill in photography in my house. That shot where the humming bird is coming straight at you is totally impossible!!! Can't believe you captured that. I must say i am VERY impressed. The humming bird with the ruby throat is my favorite humming bird pic!
The most perfect hummingbird photos! Bravo
I had not known about the importance of spider webs to the hummingbird nests till I read an article from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum regarding problems they had when, in 1992, they renovated their hummingbird aviary by cleaning it, replanting, enlarging, etc. In the absence of spider webs, the nesting hummingbirds' nests began to fall apart. When they realized what the problem was, they re-introduced spiders to the aviary and within days of the spiders weaving webs, they saw improvement in the state of the birds' nests.
You have incredible photos of the hummers. Thank you for posting.
I am confused about spider webs in the use
of making nests by the hummers. My friend
found a hummer who could not fly and starving
because the hummer was imbedded in spider
webs. She was able to pick all the webbing off
little by little so the hummer could fly, she even
feed the hummer nectar with some kind of devise
so she could have strength to fly. So I took down
all webs in the garden as I saw them. Am i right
or wrong doing this. thanks, luci
i have had many hummingbirds at my feeder for a few years now. i am very puzzled though. can anyone tell me why i very rarely see the male hummingbird and only the females? i think i saw the male once the whole summer.
thanks corey, that was a big help. so the males arent near the nesting sites?
Wow, Corey! You really ARE a big help to other people's questions! You have studied birds a lot huh? Thanks for teaching me, I am doing a report on them. Now I know everything I need to! Your awesome!
There's a little hummingbird that seems to live in my backyard and flies around all the time. It's so pretty!
I have always loved Hummingbirds. I have collected all kind from wood carved, glass blown, etc. It's always a pleasure to come across such beautiful photograghy. Excellent job!
Omg! Those r lik the bst pics i hav evr cn of humng brds i LOV thos pics espishiale the 1 that is flying towards us!
I love all of the photos but am particularly fond of the head-on shot. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing these beautiful shots! My one feeder has around 12 porst on which the Hummers can eat; however, one feeds then sits on a tree limb and chases the others away. Even my females do this. Queen Guinevere and Morgan le Fey await one another, eat together for perhaps 30 seconds then fight each other to the ground. Is this common?
My males, Rufous, King Arthur and Lancelot won't tolerate one another. Should I purchase another feeder?
Again, thanks for these wonderful shots! ~ Janet
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Partner Highlight: Nano Beyond NanoDays! Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC)
Like many communities around the country Rochester, New York goes all out celebrating NanoDays. Visitors to the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) joined museum staff and volunteers as well as staff and students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and University of Rochester for a fun filled weekend at the end of March, but as Joelle Adolfi, Manager of Youth and Family Programs, states, nano related programing doesn't end there. There's so much more!
RMSC is a long time NISE Network partner, and Director of Education, Calvin Uzelmeier, shared how valuable participation in the network is to their ongoing work, especially related to collaborative work they're doing with local researchers and with the Portal to the Public Network (PoP Net). In training their PoP Net scientists (Rochester area researchers who go through a special in-depth science communication training), RMSC uses NanoDays kits (list of all NanoDays products) to illustrate hands-on ways to communicate complex science.
The museum works hard to bring their visitors face-to-face with some of the many scientists and researchers in the region. At this year's NanoDays event, Bruce Ha from Sarah Ha Jewelry demonstrated ways he uses nanotechnology to write anything (images, the entire King James Bible, anything!) on dime size pendants.
This past month, Dr. Sara Brenner, assistant vice president for nanohealth initiatives and assistant professor of nanobioscience at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) gave a Richard C. Shultz Science on the Edge lecture at the Rochester Museum & Science Center geared toward an adult and student audience, followed by a reception and mixer. The presentation, The 21st Century Nanotechnology Landscape: Health, Safety, and Nanomedicine Applications, focused on how nanomedicine holds promise for truly innovative treatments. Dr. Brenner shared that from an economic perspective, nanotechnology applications are projected to impact nearly every known industry as well as create entirely new industrial clusters. And she talked about how rapid growth and projected acceleration of nanotechnology also creates urgency in understanding, predicting, and managing the potential health risks associated with occupational, environmental and consumer exposures to nanomaterials. Dr. Brenner's research and the health initiative at CNSE aim to develop novel nanotechnology applications in the life sciences, including medicine and public health. Joelle Adolfi shared that this kind of programming allows the museum to have a more in-depth conversation with visitors about some of the issues that come up around nanotechnology and society.
Also in April, RMSC hosted a special spring break camp and incorporated nano themed programming. One camp for 6-8 year olds reached over 50 participants. The other for older campers reached 15 kids. Campers had a great time working together, exploring the world of all things small, and learning about how nanoscience plays a role in daily life. Running and hosting this spring break camp allowed staff at RMSC to experiment with and test the camp structure. Nano at Camp continues this summer with a week-long session at the end of June. RMSC was awarded a 2014 NISE Net mini-grant to develop the nano-focused summer camp and related floor cart demonstrations for use on the museum floor. Joelle shared how useful NanoDays kits have been in providing core content, and they are all excited to keep experimenting with ways to string activities together around different themes—like nature or tools—to create longer classroom centered programs. RMSC expects the camp program will allow them to reach new audiences and strengthen partnerships with RIT and other local nano researchers and industry professionals. Hopefully the campers will make connections between what they experience at camp and nano research in the wider Rochester community.
Keep up the great work and we all look forward to learning more about what's going on with nano at RMSC!
Find out more about Rochester Museum & Science Center by visiting http://www.rmsc.org/ or contact Ali Jackson of Sciencenter, and the Northeast Regional Hub Leader.


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France — The Garmin-Transitions team finished off a memorable Tour de France with a third-place finish by New Zealander Julian Dean in Sunday's final stage in Paris. Canadian Ryder Hesjedal (pictured) finished safely in the main group, his impressive seventh-place overall placing intact.
Hesjedal's strong ride in Saturday's Stage 20 time trial—a tough 52km slog through the wind from Bordeaux to Pauillac—lifted him up from eighth to seventh overall one day before the finish in Paris.
Hesjedal entered the Tour as a domestique for team leader Christian Vande Velde but a Tour-ending crash ended the American's hopes and forced a change of plans. Hesjedal stepped up and rode aggressively through the Alps and the Pyrénées, climbing up through the standings and breaking into the top-10. His impressive TT performance on the all-new Felt DA was the final confirmation that the Canadian, who turns 30 later this summer, has emerged as one of the world's top all-around professionals.
"My Tour de France has been phenomenal," Hesjedal told Cyclingnews.com. "If anyone had said I'd be riding into Paris in the top ten, I would have said that's a nice idea, but now it's a reality."
Hesjedal's teammate Julian Dean faced a similar situation, assuming the lead responsibility for sprinting after the team lost both Tyler Farrar and Robbie Hunter to injuries. The veteran freelanced just fine on Sunday, putting himself in solid position and sprinting to third on the Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris.
Stage 20, July 25
1. Mark Cavendish (GB), HTC-Columbia, 2:42:21
2. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita), Lampre-Farnese Vini, same time
3. Julian Dean (NZ), Garmin-Transitions, same time
4. Jurgen Roelandts (Bel), Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time
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1. Alberto Contador (Spa), Astana, 91:58:48
2. Andy Schleck (Lux), Saxo Bank, at 0:39
3. Denis Menchov (Rus), Rabobank, at 2:01
4. Samuel Sanchez (Spa), Euskatel-Euskadi, at 3:40
5. Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel), Omega Pharma Lotto, at 6:54
7. Ryder Hesjedal (Can), Garmin-Transitions, at 10:15


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July has apparently become National Awkward Questions Month here in the US as both the Songwriters Guild and the EFF pleased Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek by putting their criticisms in the form of a question. Now activist Bruce Kushnick has buzzed in with some awkward questions of his own for the telecoms industry, and he argues that the current Congressional rewrites of the 1996 Telecommunications Act contain too many give-aways to the industry.
Kushnick has many complaints, but he's especially unhappy about the "national franchise" provision present in the Senate and House bills. Kushnick believes that such agreements will reduce the "build-out" requirements that most cities impose on cable and telecoms service. Without such rules, companies would have less incentive to run lines into high-cost areas, or poorer parts of town that might not see such a good return on investment. To the carriers, local franchise agreements are a sinkhole of time and money, and they would rather see a national standard in place.
Universal Service Fund
While we've covered the national franchise debate recently on Ars, we haven't had the chance to talk much about Kushnick's other big concern, the Universal Service Fund. Kushnick has (to put it mildly) problems with the way that the government distributes USF fees, which are collected from US consumers in form of extra charges to long-distance telephone calls. This government uses this pile of money to fund four services: the High Cost Support Mechanism, the Low Income Support Mechanism, the Rural Health Care Support Mechanism, and the Schools and Libraries Support Mechanism (or "E-rate"). But is the money being spent well?
E-rate has received the most press, largely due to fraud and cost overruns involved in the program, but its mission is laudable—to provide low-cost Internet and phone access to rural schools and libraries. The Low Income and Rural Health Care programs are much smaller and provide phone subsidies to (you guessed it) the poor and to rural hospitals and clinics. The vast majority of USF money, though, goes to the program you've probably not heard of before, the High Cost Support Mechanism.
This program funnels money directly from your pocket to telecom companies, usually small firms in rural areas. It's designed to keep phone prices similar across the country, even in areas where the cost of deployment is high. Unfortunately, the system has less-than-rigorous oversight and is prone to abuse. The situation is bad enough that Congress has taken notice. In recent remarks to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Joe Barton (R-TX) said that he wants the system reformed or shut down.
"Let's go up to the Panhandle of Texas where we have XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative," he said. "It serves 1,500 ranchers, farmers and others in the Texas Panhandle and I'm sure it does an excellent job. It did so well last year that it paid back in dividends more than the cost to charge its phone subscribers. It got by on only $2.6 million in federal subsidies last year."
"There is a subdivision out near Katy, Texas, which is one of the most affluent areas of West Houston," he continued. "They set up their own, the subdivision set up its own telephone company, set it up so that it qualified for rural subsidies in a high-cost area. These are homes that go between $250,000 and a million dollars and they have their own cooperative there and they're getting huge federal and state subsidies. That's in my home state. Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't have some Universal Service Fund but the current system is gameable, it's not fair, it's out-of-date. If we can't kill it, we ought to really, really work together on a bipartisan basis to seriously reform it."
The whole controversy might be little more than a tempest in a teapot if it weren't for the large sums of money involved. While E-rate fraud generated substantial press, that program distributed less than $1 billion (PDF) in 2005. High Cost Support gave out more than four times that amount.
Federal oversight, Congressional expansion
The Federal Communications Commission, which monitors the non-profit Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), recognizes the problems. The agency's Inspector General can do little about them, though, without a larger staff. As he said in his most recent report (PDF) to the FCC, "the primary obstacle to an effective, independent oversight program has been, and continues to be, inadequate audit and investigative resources so that OIG can conduct its own audits and provide adequate audit support to investigations."
The Office of Management & Budget has also weighed in with its opinion. As part of the White House's "ExpectMore.gov" initiative, the OMB assesses federal programs and attempts to make them stronger each year. The High Cost Support Mechanism does not get good marks. The OMB notes that no performance measures are in place for the program, so there's little way to tell if it's doing any good.
The OMB also notes that the program "provides subsidies to some carriers that lead to rates that are less than rates charged for comparable service in urban areas, or in some extreme cases carriers have refunded monthly charges back to consumers." It also notes that Congress has prevented the FCC from implementing specific reforms developed by a Federal-State Joint Board.
While the USF does some good work, that work comes at a cost—currently around 10 percent of your long-distance bill. Given the waste and fraud present in the programs, perhaps it's time to consider serious reform. Instead, though, the Senate (the "Stevens" bill) is considering a proposal to extend the USF to broadband access and VoIP service. Bruce Kushnick is crying "foul!", but at this late stage in the process, will anybody listen?


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In Your Face: The Rise and Fall of Zubaz
Longtime readers know that we here at mental_floss aren't afraid to tackle the big issues. Politics. Religion. Science. And today we'll bring that fearlessness to another hot-button issue: Zubaz. Let's take a look at the history of the hottest zebra-striped pants of the early 1990s.
When we think of Zubaz today, "utilitarian" probably isn't the first word that pops into our heads. However, friends Bob Truax and Dan Stock actually had a practical purpose in mind when they created the garish pants. Truax and Stock owned a Minnesota gym that was popular with bodybuilders. The bodybuilding clientele had a problem: the hardcore weightlifters couldn't find pants or shorts that comfortably fit their massive thighs while offering the flexibility they needed in workouts. In 1988 Truax and Stock began brainstorming a new kind of shorts for the heavy-lifting man.
The pair developed a comfortably baggy pair of shorts with an elastic waistband, and their bodybuilding customers and friends quickly became hooked on the roomier duds. They named the shorts "Zubaz," a take on the '70s street slang "zooba" for "in your face." The duo also cleverly made their shorts in loud, distinctive, day-glo patterns—the classic zebra-stripe pattern was one of the first Zubaz prints—that matched the company's slogan, "Dare to Be Different."
With a Little Help From the Road Warriors, J.C. Penney and Female Inmates
The men started doing a pretty brisk business selling Zubaz out of their gym solely on word-of-mouth hype. When it came to promotion, Truax and Stock had a pair of aces up their gaudily printed sleeves: wildly popular professional wrestling tag team the Road Warriors were partners in the designers' gym. Road Warrior Hawk and Road Warrior Animal looked right at home in Zubaz; the flashy pants meshed well with their trademark face paint and spiked shoulder pads. Then, Zubaz caught another break: after a J.C. Penney manager saw a fan sporting a pair of Zubaz at a hockey game, the department store chain began distributing the brand nationwide.
The actual production of the early pairs of Zubaz sounds a tad farfetched. Truax and Stock were buddies with several corrections officers who worked at Minnesota prisons, and when the guards heard the bodybuilders needed a workforce to stitch their increasingly popular shorts, they had a suggestion: hire female inmates to do the work. Thus, early pairs of Zubaz were the products of convict labor.
50,000 Pairs a Week
As Zubaz's national reach expanded, so did the brand's star power. Dan Marino became the most famous name to endorse the brand, but supermodel Claudia Schiffer also pulled on Zubaz for a series of ads. The brand's growing popularity led to a growing product line that included longer pants and caps printed in professional sports' teams colors. Eventually the brand was moving an eye-popping 50,000 pairs of Zubaz a week.
Of course, Zubaz popularity wasn't as enduring as Truax and Stock probably hoped. Although Zubaz sold over 10 million pairs of pants and pulled down around $160 million in sales during the early 1990s, the pants didn't quite end up becoming a timeless classic. Truax and Stock sold their shares of the company in the early '90s, and by 1996 the business was bankrupt.
Zubaz Redux
After Zubaz went belly-up in 1996, Truax and Stock reacquired the trademark. They sat on the concept until 2007, when they launched a line of new Zubaz as a novelty product aimed at retro-minded young men. According to a 2008 Minneapolis Star Tribune profile, the partners decided to keep the venture small by mostly selling on the Internet, out of a shop at the gym Stock owns, and at a few Minnesota sporting goods stores. The Zubaz.com webshop currently offers 28 prints of Zubaz at $29.99 a pair.
As one might guess, a large portion of the revitalized Zubaz brand's customers were old devotees whose Zubaz had met similarly mysterious fates. As Heron Marquez Estrada of the Star Tribune wrote, "As word of the return of Zubaz has spread, Stock and Truax report getting a lot of inquiries from men who bought the pants — often in their favorite pro team colors — 20 years ago, and then their wives 'lost' them."
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