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When wins for the Redskins have been scarcer than African-American votes for Mitt Romney, complaints about the quality show a lack of gratitude. Victories in the NFL are not to be taken lightly, no matter the opponent or whatever transpired during the game. The standings only reflect the ends, not the means.
So the joy is understandable, now that the Redskins snapped their three-game losing streak. A cloud has lifted and the stench in D.C. has been washed away, left to continue plaguing the City of Brotherly Love. Let the Philadelphia Eagles search for positives in their 31-6 shellacking by the Redskins; Washingtonians are content to gaze fondly at the 'W.'
But since the typical post-mortem involves explaining away Redskins losses, the wins should be subject to the same scrutiny. And despite all the positives in Sunday's performance at FedEx Field, there's reason for concern looking forward, when future opponents won't enter the game lugging five-game losing streaks with a coach who appears headed for the unemployment line shortly.
From a distance, the score and statistics suggest that the Redskins were nearly flawless. The defense didn't allow a touchdown while recording four sacks and picking off two passes from rookie-starter Nick Foles. His counterpart, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, threw a touchdown pass in each quarter and an incompletion on just one of his 15 pass attempts.
What's not to like? Plenty, including 13 penalties, six Philadelphia completions covering 20 or more yards, and nine Redskins' plays in the second half that netted zero or fewer yards (not counting the victory formation kneel-down to conclude matters).
"We have to look at things we did poorly," coach Mike Shanahan said after Washington's largest margin of victory during his tenure. "It's a lot easier to look at those things after a win. At the end of the day, you have to find a way to win the game. Then you go back and be tough on yourself, take a look at film and eliminate those mistakes so you can keep winning football games."
Like most teams that lose more often than they win, Washington fondly has claimed to be a few snaps away. They're usually big plays that the Redskins yield, and/or don't make themselves, at the games' most crucial moments. A breakdown here, a mix-up there and penalty flags all over, which typically results in a sullen locker room filled with long faces.
Washington won the battle of back-breaking game-changers from the start Sunday, with DeAngelo Hall's interception on the third play from scrimmage. The Redskins began their first drive just 9 yards away from the end zone and cashed in on RG3's 6-yard pass to Darrel Young. They scored on another short-field drive at the end of the first half, thanks to Barry Cofield's forced fumble with 27 seconds left.
Thankfully for Washington, it faced a team as just as hapless in the Eagles. Foles was making his first career start, and it showed. The Redskins harassed him with a variety of blitzes and disguised looks. Redskins wideout Aldrick Robinson didn't have a defender within shouting distance on his 49-yard TD reception in the first half. Philadelphia committed nine penalties of its own.
The good news is Washington prevailed in a must-win between two desperate NFC East foes. And another game with the Eagles remains. The bad news is that the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants will be as just as desperate when they play Washington, but not nearly as inept as Philadelphia was.
"Guys have to be honest with themselves, go back and be honest," linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said. "We can't overlook things we wouldn't allow in defeat. …I'm sure there are areas we can play a little more consistent in."
We know RG3 is a consistent threat to make something out of nothing, but his magic had been waning entering Sunday. Relying on his heroics — like the four TD passes he threw Sunday — is risky business. And the Redskins can't continue to nearly kill themselves with false start and holding penalties. That formula worked against Philadelphia, which hasn't been the model of stability on defense, but it doesn't bode well down the line.
And while the defense bent without breaking, for a change, being gashed on several long plays remains a concern. There are no more rookie quarterbacks to feast on down the stretch (unless Foles starts again on Dec. 23).
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You might think that after all the time, effort and expense, the folks in charge of a nearly $39 million renovation of the Nemours Mansion and Gardens here would want their hard work to stand out and be noticed—but you'd be wrong. As Nemours executive director Grace Gary says of the relatively recent three-year rehab project, the first part of a multiphase, 10-year endeavor, "Our greatest compliment is when people come here and ask, 'What did you do?'"
The grand, Versailles-inspired estate built by gunpowder magnate Alfred I. duPont and his second wife, Alicia, is celebrating its centenary this year, and for 40 years it has been a public museum, maintained by a family foundation. (Alfred died in 1935, and the museum was established in accordance with his will following the death of his third wife, Jessie, in 1970.) It's not that Ms. Gary and her colleagues want visitors to think the foundation dropped a lot of cash on nothing. "It's just that our goal wasn't to make everything look new again," says Francesca Bonny, registrar of Nemours. "We wanted it to look 100 years old but well maintained."
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Sounds simple, but as Ms. Gary and Ms. Bonny tell it, the work was anything but. The house alone—a five-floor, 77-room French Neoclassical manse sporting a full acre of floor space—contained some 110,000 items and objects, including a grandfather clock once owned by Marie Antoinette and numerous decorative pieces from Tiffany, Limoges and Wedgwood. There was also enough dining silver to cover 225 square feet. Every single item had to be inventoried, removed and sent somewhere for storage or the right kind of refurbishment—or both.
For instance, when work on this restoration project first began in 2005, elaborate mirrors were cleaned and regilded but not resilvered. Paintings—by Sir Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Frederic Remington, among others—and their frames were similarly treated, then sent to art storage facilities in Philadelphia. Bronze statuary went to an ironworks in Alabama for touch-up. The Steinway piano was temporarily returned to Steinway & Sons for tuning and safe-keeping.
Just emptying the house took more than three months, Ms. Bonny notes.
While the expansive black-and-white marble floor on the main level had held up admirably over the course of a century, mechanical and electrical systems had not. And systems that later became building requirements—sprinklers, smoke detectors—didn't exist at all in 1910. Coffered ceilings, some elaborately decorated with gold leaf, had to be opened along with upstairs wood flooring to repair existing systems and install new ones. Close to seven miles of new electric wiring were put in.
As if that weren't tedious enough, many hours were spent repainting intricate details outlining doorways—by some unlikely looking painters. "We had these great big, burly men arriving on Harleys and then using these tiny, tiny brushes to paint," Ms. Gary says. "It was quite a sight."
The estate reigns over 222 acres (down from the original 3,000), and the most picturesque land lies directly behind the mansion, where the symmetrically arranged gardens lie amid similarly deployed fountains, statues and urns. If it puts you in mind of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, it's because the prestigious architectural firm Carrère and Hastings (designers of the New York Public Library) provided the exact French classical lines that duPont wanted. After all, the family hailed from France, and duPont's great-great grandfather was an official in the town of Nemours—hence the name of the estate and the full name of the company through which the family's fortune was made, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
By 2005, the gardens had become "shabby," Ms. Gary says. But it wasn't so much the plants and flowers that were the problem as the "hardscape"—such infrastructure pieces as the retaining wall in the sunken garden, which was discovered to have leaned about five inches out of plumb. Workers took apart some 3,000 pieces of stone, cleaned them, realigned the wall, and rebuilt it.
The most obvious—and, at $125,000, among the most expensive—of the single fixes: Replacing the 23-karat-gold leaf on a 12-foot statue of a man triumphant over a dragon and flanked by a woman. The commanding piece stands precisely along the axis running down the center of the gardens, and if you're looking down from the house, a limestone colonnade forms a dramatic backdrop enhancing a striking visual.
Old family photographs and garden records helped determine what the original flora were; new ones—thousands of trees, shrubs, annuals and perennials—were planted. New and better drainage along with irrigation systems were installed.
Three years of painstaking work eventually restored the gardens to its original splendor. "It's truly the finest French landscape garden in North America," asserts Ms. Gary, an architectural historian, who walks around with two pairs of glasses tied to separate lanyards hanging around her neck. "Others might disagree, but I'm confident I could make a very good argument."
The most frequent comment returning visitors made, Ms. Gary says, was that everything in the house looked "brighter," but few people could say precisely why.
She believes people appreciate the guided tours because "we limit the number of visitors usually to 48, which we break into eight groups of six. That way, it's a small, intimate group, each with a guide. Our visitors say they really like that."
But what they like most, Ms. Gary suspects, is that almost all ropes have been removed from rooms in the mansion, eliminating what she describes as a subtle but powerful negative. "Ropes restrict you, tell you that you can only go so far into a room. We find that we can keep people standing only in certain areas without having to use ropes, and they tell us they feel so relaxed, like they're visiting a real home, not a museum."
Do people remark about the absence of ropes?
"Most don't even notice," she says with a proud smile.
Mr. Triplett is a writer living in Washington.


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Review: This place is an absolute oasis, especially in a country not known for its vegan cuisine. We recently went out of our way to visit, and it was worth the detour. Zest is phenomenal. Fully vegan (though cheese is served with a few dishes - and specifically marked) everything is made on site, including bread, ice creams (soy) and spreads. The food was top-notch. We both enjoyed great tempeh burgers. The smoothies are also sublime (banana-expresso) was delicious. The menu is almost overwhelming, as there are just so many great things to choose from. While not "cheap", this place was hardly expensive by European standards, especially for lunch, which was reasonable. The hardest part here is making choices of what to eat! The sides were all great. The curly fries are light and home-made; the potato salad was also great. We also enjoyed a delicious brownie for dessert, though fitting it in was a challenge. As for the waitress, I totally understand the comments of the previous review. My first impression of the waitress was the same, but I did feel she softened up a bit once we engaged her, and I was of the opinion at the end of our visit that it was more shyness than hostility, as we ended up having a spirited discussion about vegan restaurants in Germany, so she was clearly interested in her own job. I actually had the impression that she had a stake in Zest.... but that's just guessing on my part. In any event, even if the service is not the highlight of your visit, you must not miss a trip to Zest. It is, for my money, one of the best vegan restaurants in the world, and certainly one of the most innovative.
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I added extra gelatin, like the others suggested, and I'm glad i did, since it just barely came out firm. Also, the sauce was runny, so I would just reduce the liquids a bit. The taste, however, was excellent. I think making it in clear tubular cups would be great presentation, with a sprig of mint on top.flag if inappropriate
This panna cotta is very creamy even with the extra gelatin recommended by reviewers. Tastes great, but some people (like my husband) might insist it's not in the true panna cotta spirit. I used twelve year aged balsamic for the strawberries, and it was wonderful. Be careful to grind your fresh pepper as finely as possible, as I was left with some pieces that were too large for a dessert (not subtle.)flag if inappropriate
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Dr. Louis Saravolatz, an infectious disease specialist and chairman of the department of medicine at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, also pointed out that it's possible the inflammation seen with septic shock may be part of the body's natural defense, and "maybe it's helping us fight infection."
In any case, the use of corticosteroids in septic shock has remained controversial for decades, and numerous studies have been conducted, often with conflicting results. To try to definitively assess whether or not steroids could provide benefit, Sprung and his colleagues randomly assigned almost 500 people in septic shock to receive either 50 milligrams of hydrocortisone intravenously every six hours for five days, or a placebo. The researchers found no statistically significant differences in survival between the groups. The incidence of septic shock was reversed more quickly in the corticosteroid group, but this benefit was offset by additional episodes of "super-infection" with new sepsis and septic shock.
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Matsuz #10?? That seems hard to believe. I really do hope that if it comes down to Matsuz and Crow that the reds go with the former as opposed to the latter.
Matsuz #10?? That seems hard to believe. I really do hope that if it comes down to Matsuz and Crow that the reds go with the former as opposed to the latter.
Matusz shut out Cal last night. I would wet myself if the Reds got him at #7.
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I hope the pick is either Matusz or Crow. We already have our 1B of the future (and he's not much older than these current college 1Bs coming out of the draft) and we still need pitching. Unless they love one of the hitters and he is clearly the best player on the board, take one of the college pitchers!
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Since this is most likely the last start for each pitcher before the draft, I'm curious as to which dominant CGSHO performance today would impress you more. I know you probably didn't see either in person, but:
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Crow, Aaron......... 9.0 3 0 0 5 10 29 35 122
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Matusz, Brian....... 9.0 3 0 0 1 10 29 32
Crow was facing Ole Miss (37-25) while Matusz got California (33-20-2)
I know that Crow was on the slide lately (but still in the top 10), but I'm wondering if this might get him reconsidered a little higher (maybe KC or Baltimore)
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Dennis -- First off, appreciate the effort with the title. Secondly, your comparison does bring up something interesting. Just how much can one last performance in a regional help or hurt someone? I don't know that there's a hard and fast answer to that. With Matusz, I don't think it matters either way -- he's going to go where he's going to go. That CG SHO isn't suddenly going to make him the No. 1 pick.
For Crow, it might be interesting. I'd been hearing he was sliding, but perhaps not so much because of performance (though he had a mini-slump earlier). Word is he (well, his advisor) has been floating that they want a Major League contract and that's why he's dropped a few slots. Truth be told, though, I don't see him dropping too far because of that and his regional start against Ole Miss (and Lance Lynn) certainly won't hurt as teams in the top 10 (Cincy?) are considering him. That being said, I don't see any teams higher than that taking him.
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I miss Adam Dunn.
I think it's worth mentioning that after drafting #7, the Reds don't pick again until #84 and #119.
Thus, #7 for the Reds this year comes with a little more pressure to get it right than a top 10 pick in any other year.
#7 has to pan out. Period.
I don't believe there is any more pressure to get the 1st pick "right" this year, than there is any other year. The MLB draft is the biggest crap shoot of all the drafts amongst the major sports. w/ 64 rounds, there will undoubtfully be great players taken beyond round 10, and half of the 1st round picks won't amount to much in the majors, if they ever make that far.
Right now, I'd take a Chris Gruler in round 1, if I was garunteed to get a Joey Votto in round 3, and not even think twice about missing a 2nd round pick. If every draft could produce a Joey Votto type talent, plus an additionally major league filler talent or 2, I think a lot of GMs would be happy. Instead many drafts end up producing a couple of fillet type talent and no talent w/ a real shot at multiple all star appearances.
You have to think that Crow and Gordon Beckham are their realistic top targets. Both would hopefully speed through the system.
Only two more days until the draft! I don't know about you guys but I can hardly wait.
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My opinions: 5.0 was the golden age of content, the ability prune barely did anything, and 6.2 is actually an enjoyable timesink.
I gained an average of 1 Mana Tea charge every 18 seconds. That equates to 3,333 mp5. Assuming a 20% Crit chance, the buff would increase that to 4,000 mp5. That 666 mp5 increase in mana regeneration would counteract a 10% increase in mana spent if one spends 6,666 mana every 5 seconds. That roughly (using some very judicious rounding) equates to one Renewing Mists or Spinning Crane Kick every 12 seconds or so. For another comparison, that's also 1 Jab every 3.7 seconds. To compare to my Feng fights, I used SCK around once every 11.7 seconds on average. I'm not sure if it's actually affected by the mana increase (it wasn't listed in the spell changes), but I used Renewing Mists as much if not more than SCK, so I believe I was actually wrong before and this will still result in a slight nerf.
The nerf is warranted, but I find that the shift towards more focus on Mana Tea is simply boring. Pressing a button every 10 seconds to get mana is not very engaging gameplay. I did it with Water Shield in TBC and Cataclysm, and it just ends up being something you set up a Power Aura for, and whenever that thing lights up you press it.
Diplomacy is just war by other means.
You guys are crazy. We had a monk in our raid in mostly blues killing other healers simply because he was a monk. I could push 1-3 buttons and dominate most fights. While I think the nerfs are way overboard, and likely to be tuned back a bit, they were certainly needed. When 2/3rds your healing team is considering rerolling monk to be the flavor of the month.. something has to be done.. for realz.
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So going off those numbers, 327/9*24000 = 872,000 mana I spent on soothing mists. Reducing that by a third, I'd have saved 287,760 mana during the fight. That's almost an entire mana bar to cast more spells with. Now with this latest change (-33%, +10%), I believe I read it's only a 27.4% reduction instead of 33%, but that's still 238,928 mana less.
hmm, ppl are as usual focusing on the nerfs and not on the buffs. keep in mind, you now get 50% more haste from items, which affect mana regen, which again effects chi generation, which again effect mana tea etc. you get the idea. the haste buff does offset a lot of the nerfs altho not all of them but i would agree with one of the posters here, a 25-30% nerf to the heal of renewing mist would have been preferable to the reduction of targets, it does seem a bit too much to me.
The classes as they are now can be a bit more tricky. There's claims that Disc Priest would need 13k spirit before spirit would actually become devalued. (in Live, not the PTR changes. Hence, those changes.)
Now, with Monk we obviously aren't having this problem when playing "correctly." (Someone wanna point out how they learned to do that without someone else telling them? Cause leveling certainly didn't teach it.) When it comes down to it, MW healing is so weak per tick or per use that not gemming intellect and focusing on Crit (5m, 10m) would essentially make Surging Mist a dead skill. In ilvl468 gear, unbuffed, my Surging Mist is healing for ~60k. That's eight casts to heal a nearly dead 500k health tank. Meaning I'd be spending 48% of my mana on a single target. No amount of spirit can offset that as it stands.
Long story short, I agree with you for the most part.
My opinions: 5.0 was the golden age of content, the ability prune barely did anything, and 6.2 is actually an enjoyable timesink.
I'm not too concerned about the nerfs. We were working on Garalon yesterday and at berserk, I was still above 25% mana. A 10% increase to mana cost wouldn't break me. Conversely, there are still times where Mana Tea comes off cooldown and I only have one stack. Healing-wise, I was doing 100-110k HPS, while the next highest (a resto shaman) was doing 70-75k. Looking at my breakdown, 60-65% came from ReM/Uplift, and the rest of the healing was from things that are not affected by the nerf. I could still expect to be leading the pack doing over 80k HPS post-nerf.
As far as our 'toolkit,' nerfing the number of targets was the right decision to bring us inline with other healers, as opposed to nerfing the healing done. Other healers signature AoE heals tend to either hit about 5-6 targets (wild growth, circle of healing, chain heal) or require stacking (swiftmend, healing rain, holy word sanctuary). With this change we go from rolling it on 8-10 targets to rolling it on 6-8.
Tank heals are definitely our weakest area, but this is also where the changes to soothing mist and haste will benefit the most. The only heal we have that really benefits from haste is Soothing Mist and the increased chi generation should make any tank healing smoother. I'm not sure it's really enough, but at least it's an improvement.
I'm not sure what people want for raid utility to be more than zero. Revival is functional as a big AoE heal and Life Cocoon as a tank cooldown. Certainly, they can be stronger, but not while our current healing is so powerful. We can spec into Xuen, which does a solid amount of healing and damage over 45 seconds (looking like over 600k per cast for me). We can also add an extra 10k or more DPS to a fight, which pulling solid healing numbers.
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To the point, though, as far as raid utility I'd like some form of shared mana recovery (say, when drinking tea you release an aura that doesn't effect yourself that grants a few seconds of 0.5% mana recovery) If that would be too strong or complicated, then some form of buff that gets put on by our heals (divine aegis, ancestral vigor, grace, etc) that would assist other healers or reduce raid damage. (Say, Revival giving a 5 second 10% damage reduction buff or similar) If nothing else, a tank-centric buff from our Soothing Mist like the one I described here would be be greatly appreciated if another healer was to die or suddenly go OoM during a battle.
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We know, we know. It's Thanksgiving weekend. And that means a lot of reunions at the high school football field.
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There's a lot of good games out there - many with big-time implications.
There's Goose Creek vs. Northwestern in South Carolina. This one may just be first one to 100 wins.
And Daphne vs. Davidson in Alabama. Yeah, Alabama - it has more than just Hoover.
Katy vs. North Shore has the potential to be a blast-from-the-past thriller in Texas.
And Bishop Gorman-Palo Verde in Nevada could be the precursor of a big rivalry to come.
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WHY IT'S BIG: This is a final four matchup in a state on the rise. Both teams have played well and scored a lot of points this season. A showdown for a spot in the state title game should make for an epic battle. Northwestern has garnered many of the headlines this year, but Goose Creek has the firepower to stay with Northwestern and even sneak out a win.
BEST MATCHUP: Goose Creek secondary vs. Northwestern receivers. Neither group is nationally known but both will have a major impact in this game. Northwestern is a team that throws first, second and, well, always. Teams have tried everything to slow down the attack from zones, blitzes and plenty of mixed coverages. What it will ultimately come down to is whether or not Goose Creek can keep the receivers out of space.
GOOSE CREEK WINS IF: It dictates the pace of the game. The Gators like to control the ball on the ground; they have not had 100 passing attempts on the season. The team has three rushers over 700 yards and nearly five players with at least 500 yards. If the team can hold the ball and make the fast-paced Trojans stand on the sidelines watching, it could very well win this game.
NORTHWESTERN WINS IF: The team is able to force a few three-and-outs. Not many teams have come close to pushing around Goose Creek this year. That is what it will take to win this game for Northwestern. The team is hardened with a few tests this season, but it has yet to see the type of offensive attack it will on Friday. If the Trojans are pushed back onto their heels, it could be a long night.
PREDICTION: The two teams have split the last two games, with Goose Creek shutting out Northwestern to start the season last year. This year, the Trojans look to finish the season strong and this test will go a long way toward that. Northwestern opened 2009 with a 1-5 record, but has since won 21 of 22 games. This is another for the positive column. -Northwestern 32, Goose Creek 21
WHY IT'S BIG: This is the semifinal game for the left side of the bracket in Alabama 6A. The winner of this game likely will be facing nationally-ranked Hoover. Any time a game can steal the regional spotlight from Miami Central-Miami Northwestern, it has to be huge. This game is. It is not loaded with Division I talent, but it is chalk full of solid football players and should be one fought to the end.
BEST MATCHUP: Davidson defense vs. Daphne offense. Davidson has allowed more points between the two this season. And Daphne has scored more points this season. The teams share five common opponents and game film should be easy to compare. Davidson has been in more battles and that could prove a difference with mental toughness being on its side. However, Daphne has been flying under the radar so much that it could effectively play the disrespect card for yet another week.
DAPHNE WINS IF: Its defense can put the clamps on Davidson. Daphne has not been receiving very many headlines locally, let alone nationally, but that does not mean this is not a quality team. The low-pressure situation should allow for this defense to play fast and free. If the defense is able to keep Davidson under 20 points, the offense may be able to get this team to victory.
DAVIDSON WINS IF: It lingers around long enough. Both teams are nationally ranked and very solid fundementally. But Daphne is more explosive and can score points in bunches. Davidson will need to frustrate and wear down its opponent to get the momentum and mental edge. It has been proven again and again that the mentally tougher team is the one that pulls out the victories in the end. That is what Davidson will need to do.
PREDICTION: Too many people have been discounting the ability of Daphne this season. Being told what you can not do has got to be getting old by now. Daphne is a team that can not only get to the semifinals, but it would not be a stunner if it won an Alabama 6A title next week as well. The final score will be closer than the action on the field. - Daphne 24, Davidson 14
WHY IT'S BIG: The state final in Illinois Class 7A draws top billing in the Lakes region this week over state semifinals in Ohio. This is supposed to be the Year of the Tiger in Illinois as Wheaton Warrenville South has marched straight through opponents since the season kicked off. Lake Zurich was not expected to be in this spot come season's end, but the Bears sharpened their claws with wins over Simeon and St. Rita in the playoffs.
BEST MATCHUP: Lake Zurich defense vs. the offense of Wheaton Warrenville South. If Lake Zurich is going to pull the upset, it will need to do so on the strength of its defense. So far this year, no team has been able to slow the Tigers offense. The Bears will not be able to keep pace if the game gets into a track meet. Lake Zurich has yet to allow a team to score more than 24 points in a game this season. Of course, it has been held to less than that in eight contests.
LAKE ZURICH WINS IF: Everything goes its way. Sure, any team can beat any team on any day. But this season, teams which were expected to be better than Lake Zurich have been made to look a lot worse. Lake Zurich needs to have wet conditions, turnovers and friendly refs to steal this game. The team is too traditional to keep up with the fast-paced style of play that it will see Saturday.
WHEATON WARRENVILLE SOUTH WINS IF: It plays its game. This is not the first time the Tigers have been highlighted in a Weekend Watch and each time it has been a broken record. This team is not a typical Illinois team. There is not a three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust mentality here. It is more like "spread the field and lets get to passing." If the team is able to avoid multiple turnovers - like five - then it should easily win the state title again.
PREDICTION: From the first week of the season it was evident that this was the best team in Illinois. Baring something unforeseen happening, its coronation will be on Saturday afternoon. Look for back-to-back winners in the best class of Illinois football. - Wheaton Warrenville South 40, Lake Zurich 10
WHY IT'S BIG: Book the winner of this game at the state final - it is that big. The two teams are familiar foes and have already met this season (a lopsided Katy win), but they have a long history of close battles. Both teams are talented and well coached. With the rest of the draw not bringing much else to the table, this game is a defacto state semifinal game for Texas 5A DI.
BEST MATCHUP: The North Shore defensive line vs. the Katy rush game. The Tigers dominated the line of scimmage in the first game of the season, and if it is able to push around North Shore again, a result similar to the first game could be in the cards.
NORTH SHORE WINS IF: It can use the embarrassment from the first week of the season to fuel this week. The two teams usually play low-scoring games built on physical play. North Shore will need to get back to that. It is the team with more Division I talent on the field, but Katy is the team focused on the prize at the end. North Shore will need to come out ready to fight if it wants to win.
KATY WINS IF: The gameplan is executed. The framework is the same for Katy every year. As long as the parts cooperate, the success is a given. The running game and offensive line play will be the key on that side of the ball. The linebacking core will be called upon to stop the attack. If both of those things happen, Katy will be headed to the finals.
PREDICTION: It is our hope that this game is more like the past three seasons and not like the opening week of this season. If Katy is able to beat North Shore to the same tune it did in August, this may very well be the best team in Texas. North Shore has plenty to prove and winning this game will go a long way toward that. - Katy 23, North Shore 18
WHY IT'S BIG: It's a state semifinal game between the two Nevada teams that have been ranked all season. The spot for the No. 2 position in Nevada has been hotly contested (by the two teams playing in the other semifinal) but this could be a defacto state final game. The two teams have a contrasting style of play and it should be an interesting go.
BEST MATCHUP: Bishop Gorman defensive line vs. the Palo Verde run game. Bishop Gorman has one of the better defensive lines in the country, but it was worn down by both Hamilton and De La Salle in early season games. If it has not toughened up to this point, Palo Verde could make a major step in national respect.
BISHOP GORMAN WINS IF: Its offense puts up 24 points or more. Palo Verde is a run-first, defense-second team. If Gorman is able to make this game high-scoring, it will play directly into the hands of the Gaels. Gorman is a team is looking to keep its winning tradition going and it has plenty of Division I talent from its seniors to sophomores to make that happen.
PALO VERDE WINS IF: The linbackers carry the defense. The Panthers game is built around physical play from the middle of its defense and those guys will need to flow to the ball and make tackles. If the defense allows Gorman too many yards after contact it will pay dearly. The offensive line will be the second unit to circle. If it is not able to protect the quarterback or open holes, the game will not get going.
PREDICTION: Despite the two losses to out-of-state teams, Bishop Gorman remained the top team in Nevada this year and has steamrolled its competition. The next two weeks will provide the best tests for the Gaels in over a month. The Gaels, which were supposed to be further down, still have a good team and could be exceptional next year. The 2010 season will still end with a state title. - Bishop Gorman 30, Palo Verde 16
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Embedded database provider Raima has added Icon Design Automation to their growing family of RDM distributors. With offices throughout India, Icon Design Automation is in great position to serve India's fast growing embedded systems market.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 27, 2010 -- Raima, a Birdstep Technology Company (OSE: BIRD), which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies, today announced that Icon Solutions is the latest addition to reseller network. A well respected provider of embedded solutions within India's fast growing technology industry, Icon Solutions has added RDM Embedded and RDM Server as the embedded database product offering within their product offerings.
"Raima realizes that in order to better serve the embedded systems market within India we need to partner with the best technology firms within that local market, stated Steinar Sande, Raima's CEO. "We believe Icon Design Automation's proven success and true professionalism will provide the means to best serve our customers within India."
Icon Design Automation has been a key player in the India embedded systems market since 1997 and have a proven track recorded within the Industry. Their customers include some of the most innovative firms in India and the world. Several of these clients have projects that include requirements for an embedded database. It was these customers who introduced Icon to Raima resulting in this great new partnership.
"Raima Database Management Software is gaining a very positive reputation for its high performance and broad market support," remarked R Varalakshmi, CEO of ICON. "We are delighted to be associated with such a leading-edge, industry-proven product for the Indian market."
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Jeroen1971: This building (slide nr. 12) is the Deutsche Sporthalle on the Karl Marx Allee, former Stalinallee. Built in 1951, they closed it down in 1968 and tore it down in 1971, since the build quality was so bad, it nearly collapsed on its own.
You have asked people to identify buildings; #1 is of course the Reichstag, site of the very last fighting in the battle of Berlin. That may be obvious to all, but perhaps not.
That is the redacted version. The soldier in the foreground had an instrument on his right wrist- perhaps a compass, perhaps a 2nd (looted) wristwatch.
This should be required reading for everyone who thinks tilt/shift is used to decrease DoF.
The grip is very sturdy but has a notch in the lower right corner that digs into the heel of my hand. My most serious gripe about this otherwise near-perfect camera.
bdcolen: Hey, folks, the issue really isn't 4/3, M4/3, or anything else having to do with photography. For longer than most of you have been alive, the photographic side of Olympus has been the tail perceived as wagging the dog. Olympus makes its money from it's non-photographic business - medical and scientific instruments, including, especially, microscopes and various medical scopes. The photography business is what most people know, but it is essentially a drag on the bottom line, not the bottom line.
Yes, Olympus makes some really terrific lenses, but the particularly good ones also are particularly expensive - the 7-14 f 2 4/3 zoom, the 14-35 f2 4/3 zoom, the 35-100 f 2 zoom, the 150 f 2, the 300 2.8. No one - period - makes anything that even tries to compete with Olympus in that all-inclusive 28-200 zoom range. Unfortunately, however, Olympus does not make a modern, competitive body on which to mount the lenses and fully utilize them. And probably never will.
The 11-22, 50 and 50-200 were all old when I bought them in 2007 and each is the best of it's type that I have ever used, mostly compared to Nikkors and Schneiders.
Nice photo, but exactly in the Weston/Adams style- who hated pictorialism.
To those who do it, woodworking is the process and woodwork is the result. So I interpret this, along with the host's instructions, to mean pictures of woodworkers at work. But I don't make the rules.
if it was unposterized. Wonderful composition and decisive moment. However the postprocessing is particularly inappropriate for this subject as it ends up resembling the propaganda posters used by the oppressors of Tibet and other totalitarians. 3.0
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To Place or Not to Place?
Households with children younger than 5 should not keep hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, hedgehogs, or other rodents, according to a report in the October 2008 issue (Vol. 122, No. 4) of Pediatrics.
November 1, 2008
Puppy Love that Lasts
A study shows that pet owners feel more secure in their relationships with their pets than with their romantic partners.
November 1, 2008
Neuter or Spay ??? The Right Way
Spay/neuter programs may be all over the place, but the quality of care they offer doesn't have to be according to a new report published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
July 1, 2008
Knowing When to Nip it in the Buds
A survey of scientific literature suggests the healthiest age to spay and neuter pets.
July 1, 2008
Will Your Response be a Natural Disaster?
A mock shelter evacuation illuminates the good, the bad, and the potentially lethal during crisis response.
May 1, 2008
Rabbits Count -- So Count Rabbits
When PetSmart announced that it would begin test sales of rabbits in some stores, rabbit advocates started to examine rabbit statistics in animal shelters and rescue groups.
May 1, 2008
The State of the Cat
Last fall, leaders from the animal welfare, veterinary, and pet industries gathered in Denver to discuss how to improve the image and status of cats in our communities.
January 1, 2008
The Behavior Department: Bad, Bad Cats Whatcha Gonna Do?
A post-adoption survey helps the Animal Rescue League of Boston figure out how their adopted cats are getting on in their new homes.
January 1, 2008
Support Your Local Euthanasia Technician
A recent study gathers stress-reduction ideas from those in the most difficult jobs.
November 1, 2007
Take This Job and ... Improve It
A recent study examines the effects of euthanasia and human resource practices on employee turnover in animal shelters.


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|Trad, Aid, 17 pitches, 1200', Grade VI
|YDS: 5.9 French: 5c Ewbanks: 17 UIAA: VI ZA: 17 British: HVS 5a A1+ [details]
|James Garrett and Tyler Phillips, 30 September 2006 (six climbing days)
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By Ben Kiessel
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Clay and I just climbed the second ascent of this awesome route over a day and a half. The route went all clean at 5.9 C2.
If you are looking for a shorter version of this it would be easy to walk up to below the 7th pitch, and climb a 60' moderate pitch to get to the base of pitch 7. Also the tower on pitch 8 and the rappel can be avoided with a short pitch to the right. This short pitch would put you at the start of pitch 9.
We rappelled from the summit to the ground with a one full 60 meter rappel. We were unable to find a fixed anchor for the next rappel to the scree field so we scrambled down a gulley and rappelled off a tree under pitch 10 or 11. This rappel was around 100'.
Big thanks to James and Tyler for putting in all the hard work!
FYI the pens in the register on top of "hummingbirds perch" don't work, so bring a pencil along.
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How to Keep Common Editing Goofs from Ruining Your Great Design
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How did you miss it? The client's name is misspelled on the design you turned in. How embarrassing.
You spend a lot of time your designs. As a result, your designs look great. And your clients love them.
There's something they won't love, though. That's an editing goof. Yet, probably because they're not focused on words, many designers overlook the importance of editing the copy that goes with their design.


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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Authorities in the Bahamas have charged two tourists from Florida with killing a Jamaican during what police say was a drug deal gone bad.
Police say Clive Tomlinson was fatally shot early Wednesday in Bimini.
They have charged 27-year-old Daniel Andres Ayo and 39-year-old Luis Mendez in the killing.
The two men and another Floridian, 43-year-old Jorge Luis Paez, also face drug possession and weapons charges. Police say they were carrying 1.6 ounces of marijuana with intent to sell.
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Evaluation of health care providers' role transition and satisfaction in hospital-at-home for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: a survey study
1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
2 Department of General Practice, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
3 Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
4 Department of Staff nurses Nursing and Care, ZuidZorg, Veldhoven, the Netherland
5 Department of Health Care Policy, Meander Group Zuid-Limburg, Heerlen, the Netherlands
BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:363 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-363Published: 27 September 2013
Hospital-at-home is an accepted alternative for usual hospital treatment for patients with a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation. The introduction of hospital-at-home may lead to changes in health care providers' roles and responsibilities. To date, the impact on providers' roles is unknown and in addition, little is known about the satisfaction and acceptance of care providers involved in hospital-at-home.
Objective of this survey study was to investigate the role differentiation, role transitions and satisfaction of professional care providers (i.e. pulmonologists, residents, hospital respiratory nurses, generic and specialised community nurses and general practitioners) from 3 hospitals and 2 home care organisations, involved in a community-based hospital-at-home scheme. A combined multiple-choice and open-end questionnaire was administered in study participants.
Response rate was 10/17 in pulmonologists, 10/23 in residents, 9/12 in hospital respiratory nurses, 15/60 in generic community nurses, 6/10 in specialised community nurses and 25/47 in general practitioners. For between 66% and 100% of respondents the role in early discharge was clear and between 57% and 78% of respondents was satisfied with their role in early discharge. For nurses the role in early discharge was different compared to their role in usual care. 67% of generic community nurses felt they had sufficient knowledge and skills to monitor patients at home, compared to 100% of specialised community nurses. Specialised community nurses felt they should monitor patients. 60% of generic community nurses responded they should monitor patients at home. 78% of pulmonologists, 12% of general practitioners, 55% of hospital respiratory nurses and 48 of community nurses was satisfied with early discharge in general. For coordination of care 29% of community nurses had an unsatisfied response. For continuity of care this was 12% and 10% for hospital respiratory nurses and community nurses, respectively.
A community-based early assisted discharge for COPD exacerbations is possible and well accepted from the perspective of health care providers' involved. Satisfaction with the different aspects is good and the transfer of patients in the community while supervised by generic community nurses is possible. Attention should be paid to coordination and continuity of care, especially information transfer between providers.


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When writing C programs that need to share a file scope variable between the application and an interrupt routine/a thread/a callback routine, it is well-known that the variable must be declared volatile, or else the compiler may do incorrect optimizations. This is an example of what I mean:
int flag;
void some_interrupt (void)
flag = 1;
int main()
flag = 0;
/* <-- interrupt occurs here */
x = flag; /* BUG: the compiler doesn't realize that "flag" was changed
and sets x to 0 even though flag==1 */
To prevent the above bug, "flag" should have been declared as volatile.
My question is: how does this apply to C++ when creating a class containing a thread?
I have a class looking something like this:
class My_thread
int flag;
static void thread_func (void* some_arg) // thread callback function
My_thread* this_ptr= (My_thread*)some_arg;
"some_arg" will contain a pointer to an instance of the class, so that each object of "My_thread" has its own thread. Through this pointer it will access member variables.
Does this mean that "this_ptr" must be declared as pointer-to-volatile data? Must "flag" be volatile as well? And if so, must I make all member functions that modify "flag" volatile?
I'm not interested in how a particular OS or compiler behaves, I am looking for a generic, completely portable solution.
EDIT: This question has nothing to do with thread-safety whatsoever!
The real code will have semaphores etc.
To clarify, I wish to avoid bugs caused by the compiler's unawareness of that a callback function may be called from sources outside the program itself, and therefore make incorrect conclusions about whether certain variables have been used or not. I know how to do this in C, as illustrated with the first example, but not in C++.


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I thought it'd be interesting to get Karunaprabha (the leader of this project in Pune) to share her thoughts about aspects of the project. She kindly answered a series of questions for me, which I'll be sharing with you in the next few weeks!
Question: What do you see as the biggest successes that you have seen in your work?
1. First of all, our efforts mean that we've been successful in creating a supportive environment where the girls can build their self-esteem and confidence.
2. Another big change has been the fact they they all eat healthy food now, and they know about the impact of food on their well-being.
3. It's lovely to see them all interact with one another and make friends - so different to the isolation that many faced before.
4. A major step has been how girls are becoming financially empowered through having done vocational training.
5. The girls really are becoming agents in their own lives, participating in decision-making over issues that affect their own lives.
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Happy Interstellar Workers' Day comrades if only Lenin could see you now.
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The Scarlet Banners of Soviet Glory fly above our heads comrades! Happy May Day! Let us continue the path that Lenin began!
Posted by SwissKnight on May 1st, 2009
The Red Fleet celebrated May Day with a show of force over the capital world of New Leningrad today as millions across the Soviet Union took to the streets to show their support for the Soviet Government. Three squadrons of Red Fleet vessels, estimated at over 130 ships made several passes over New Moscow City dazzling both onlookers and Premier Sokolovsky who presided over the celebrations from the base of Lenin Tower. The fleet then made its way into orbit before jumping out of system presumably to October Station to take part in an official Red Space Forces ceremony taking place there.
The Red Army and Red Air Force were also present, as Soviet troops made the 7km march through Red Square flanked on either side by crowds as aircraft roared overhead. The 1st Guards Tank Division were the guests of honor this year, fresh from their victories on Tanarsus, with the 401st Guards Motor-Rifle Division, 207th Guards Tank Division, and 37th Guards Shock Army also represented. The display of military might was not lost on the foreign officials invited by the Soviet Government.
Indeed, this year's ceremony is notable for the inclusion of dignitaries not only from Soviet allies such as the New Weimar Republic, but also from the Democratic Federation. Representatives from the United States, British-Canadian Commonwealth, French Republic, Federation of Oceania, and the Andrean Republic joined their counterparts from the Japanese Empire, Islamic Republic of Tawhid, Federal Nordic Cooperative and Brazilian Unitary as honored guests of the Soviet Union. The Greater German Reich ambassador was notably absent, having been arrested by the KGB at the outbreak of the border wars.
The ceremony concluded as Admiral Anatole Petrovich, was named Hero of the Soviet Union and bestowed the Order of Lenin, his image televised to every world in the Soviet Union.
For Andrean Interstellar News, I'm Christopher Nishimura
Happy Interstellar Workers' Day comrades if only Lenin could see you now.
Lol, but hey thats a way, i geusss to say (;)...
awesome xD
commies lol.
Sorry, but there is one thing I noticed in the list of factions, "English-Canadian Commonwealth". You mean "BRITISH-Canadian Commonwealth"? Sorry, but I had to point that out since I'm Welsh and I feel as if the English are destroying our identity, same with Scotland's ((Well, I don't mind the English, but I just hate it when people say "England" when they mean "Britain")). If you could rename it to the "British-Canadian Commonwealth" I would be very happy :)
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This paper discusses the printing challenges faced by SMBs and how, by using a simple and flexible MPS, a business can save time and money whilst improving employee productivity.
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17. E-invoicing: Ready for Prime Time
Despite today's digital age, of the 30 billion invoices sent and received in Europe every year, more than 90% are in paper format. This is not only labour intensive and error prone, but comes at both a financial and environmental cost.
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18. The Interactive Medica Life Sciences Application Suite
Interactive Medica's Life Sciences Application Suite offers a range of cloud-based sales and marketing applications that address the key commercial challenges faced by Life Sciences companies today. The Suite combines the cost, flexibility, and...
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19. Managed Print Services Comes Of Age
With increased awareness of MPS amongst large enterprises, Quocirca believes that innovation will shape the success of larger MPS engagements, requiring a broader use of document workflow solutions for business process improvement.
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20. Improving IT efficiency through print management
Midmarket businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services.
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The use of complex software is now part of daily business life. Unfortunately cyber criminals are taking advantage of this to spread malware and to attack systems with the aim of stealing information, money and intellectual...
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A review of Managed Print Services (MPS) programmes for SMBs and midmarket organisations - European vendor analysis 2010
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IT managers need to keep demonstrating how IT can help drive the business forward and underpin survival and growth, even in a tough economic climate. On-demand spend analytics is a quick and easy win with a potentially huge return on investment.
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Communications needs are changing rapidly - Internally, there are new technologies appearing and changes in working styles to deal with but there is now the influence of more social and consumer choices affecting the officially deployed systems.
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The emergence of simple and affordable packaged services for print management helps to reduce operational costs, increase uptime and allows strained IT resources to focus on more strategic tasks.
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Defence logistics have multiple touch points with logistics systems operated by civilian and quasi-civilian organisations, and must be able to operate effectively, rapidly and transparently with these systems.
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This report should be of interest to anyone who is considering managed print services or looking to improve the management and control of their printing infrastructure.
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While many organisations focus on the office environment, there are opportunities to be uncovered by taking a wider view of printing - to include enterprise output - as a way to gain further cost benefits and drive business efficiencies.
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