text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline Sloane Stephens vs. Victoria Azarenka: Australian Open live analysis by SI.com Staff Email Posted: Thu Jan. 24, 2013 Sloane Stephens (left) is in her first major semifinal, while Victoria Azarenka is the defending champion. (Getty Images)Victoria Azarenka defeated Sloane Stephens 6-1, 6-4 to make her second straight Australian Open final and she did so under some very controversial circumstances. After squandering five match points in the second set, Azarenka called a 10-minute medical timeout that left Stephens waiting to serve to stay in the match. Azarenka then successfully broke Stephens to seal the match to the subdued applause of the Aussie crowd.People will be talking about this one for a while.Game-by-game analysis after the jump.Second Set1:25 a.m. ET | Game, set, match: Azarenka defeats Stephens 6-1, 6-4.Azarenka is still struggling with that forehand. Completely unsure about that shot. Doesn't know whether to hit it or guide it in. But Stephens' decision to just sit for 10 minutes during the MTO as opposed to getting up and serving some practice serves does seem to have disrupted her rhythm.Azarenka earns her sixth match point and finally converts as Stephens goes for a backhand down the line winner that lands long.The Aussie crowd gives Stephens a fantastic ovation as she walks off court. She'll be disappointed in the end there. She had the World No. 1 on the verge of a breakdown."Well I almost did the choke of the year," Azarenka says during her on court interview. Oddly, despite being asked about why she took the MTO, Azarenka doesn't give a medical reason. Simply says she felt overwhelmed and the nerves got to her. Last time I checked, that's not a medical reason for a 10 minute break.http://twitter.com/linzsports/statuses/294330781495615488http://twitter.com/EdMcGrogan/statuses/2943305974201753601:17 a.m. ET | Azarenka takes a medical timeout.Azarenka has left the court for medical evaluation. ESPN2 says she was pointing to her chest when speaking to the tournament doctor. To be fair, yes, it's very hot out there. But this looks more about Azarenka feeling stressed about blowing five match points than any sort of illness.Twitter is riding the wave of cynicism on this one too.http://twitter.com/christophclarey/statuses/294327703358808064http://twitter.com/NeilHarmanTimes/statuses/294327036909060097http://twitter.com/gregcouch/statuses/294327108451323904http://twitter.com/BenRothenberg/statuses/294328088504979456Stephens has chosen to remain on court. Is Azarenka trying to ice the kicker? Stephens will serve to stay in the match when Azarenka comes back.1:10 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 5-4.Stephens saves five match points and breaks back. Unreal.Azarenka earns two match points and Stephens saves them both with some great defense and a little help from Azarenka's errors. She's more than mildly angry, as she slaps at a ball angrily.But Azarenka gets Match Point No. 3 as Stephens has a mid court sitter that she sends long. Azarenka lets out a bloodcurling scream as she sends a forehand long. Not exactly endearing herself to the Aussie crowd here with her attitude over the last 10 minutes. That forehand has really let her down in this game.Stephens earns a break point and but shanks a forehand return miles out.Match Point No. 4 and again Azarenka duffs a midcourt forehand into the net. She's choking these away for no reason. Well, other than the fact that a Slam final and the No. 1 ranking is on the line. So I guess that's a pretty good reason.Match Point No. 5: Guess what! Vika misses another forehand. Incredible.At deuce, Stephens nails a perfect backhand pass. Held it and then whipped it across her body for a short angle winner. Azarenka, who has no confidence in her forehand at all, is charging the net as much as possible. She dares Stephens to pass her and the teen sends it long.Stephens earns another break point and makes no mistake this time. Azarenka is pushing forehands in and when Stephens finally gets a look at a winner, she knocks a forehand down the line to break back.Here comes the trainer for Azarenka. Can the trainer fix her forehand?12:56 a.m. ET | Azarenka breaks, leads 5-3.Gotta love this Aussie crowd. It's absolutely sweltering on Rod Laver Arena and they are now rooting hard for a third set, erupting after every point Stephens wins. She's come out with an eye towards aggression this time and it's the right tactic, though she's missing. She sprays an overhead long and sends a big forehand wide, giving Azarenka two break points. Azarenka only needs one. Her defense keeps her in the rally and Stephens finally sends a lazy backhand long.By the tepid response from the crowd and the dead silence in the ESPN2 booth, you'd think somebody died.Azarenka will serve for a spot in the final.12:50 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 4-3.Great fightback from Stephens and then she gets broken at love, the result of a lapse in focus in the face of a steely Vika. Ah the indiscretions of youth.But Stephens fights back and earns a break point thanks to a great inside-out forehand that leaves Azarenka slapping her racket in disgust. One thing Stephens should learn walking away from this match is how effective that shot is against the top players. She may not need it to win against the lower-ranked set, but if she wants to push into the Top 10 she has to be willing to go for that shot. It looks so natural for her.On game point, Azarenka throws in two doublefaults and screams in utter rage. Stephens converts on break point and we're back on serve. Not sure what's hotter right now, the court or Azarenka's head. She smacks a ball into the court and stomps to her chair.12:39 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 3-2.Azarenka doesn't call the trainer on the changeover but she's clearly feeling that injury. Not sure if it's the leg or ankle."This could be a great break for Stephens," ESPN2's Pam Shriver says. Trying to think of any other situation where a potential injury would be termed "a great break" for anyone. Nope, can't think of one.Stephens has finally realized that she's never going to out-rally Azarenka. She's hitting bigger and it's working. Stephens holds.Azarenka is favoring that leg just a bit. Victoria Azarenka rolled to a 6-1 first set over Sloane Stephens. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)12:32 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 2-1.Could this be happening again? Azarenka gets pulled wide and comes up lame.. Seems to have tweaked something in her leg as she goes to the back of the court and leans over as if to stretch it out. Then two points later she gracefully charges the net for a backhand volley winner. So...I think she's ok. Redfoo breathes a sigh of relief.Stephens get to 30-30 on Azarenka's serve and she's two points from getting right back into this match. But once again she tries to whip a forehand down the line and nets its. Just not using her footwork to get enough space and she ends up getting jammed by the ball.Stephens still gets it to deuce and lucks out when Azarenka's running forehand passing shot clips the tape. She converts her first break point of the day with a clean inside out forehand winner and just like that, she's back on serve.12:26 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 2-0.Second verse, same as the first. Azarenka holds easily and then breaks.Chris Evert: "Alright, let's see some more volleys, Sloane!" Totally unbiased stuff from the ESPN2 commentary team.Not that the sentiment is wrong. Break points down, Stephens plays the best two back-to-back points of the match, one that she finishes with some great volleys at the net and another with a big ace. Then she misses two rally forehands badly to give Azarenka another break point, which she converts when Stephens pulls a backhand wide.Ah, the inconsistencies of youth.http://twitter.com/jon_wertheim/statuses/294315337053261825First Set Sloane Stephens got off to a slow start in her first meeting with Victoria Azarenka. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)12:16 a.m. ET | Azarenka takes the set 6-1.Whelp, that was a quick one. It's just a difference in class right now, as Azarenka holds and then breaks at 15 with a perfect topspin lob as Stephens charges the net. Stephens looks flat and doesn't seem to be clear on what she wants to against Azarenka. Again, though Stephens' win over Serena was huge context is important. Serena can go off the rails and just start missing, as she did yesterday in large part because of her injuries, and those free points can buoy a young player's confidence and keep them in the match. Azarenka is just suffocating her right now. She's playing relative clean, she's hitting the ball deep and wide, and she's crushing Stephens' second serve.12:08 a.m. ET | Azarenka leads 4-1.SI PHOTO GALLERY: Sloane Stephens Through the Years.Stephens still content to be the counterpuncher but Azarenka won't give her the easy errors she was gifted yesterday and the only way you can be an effective counterpuncher is if you don't miss on easy rally balls. Stephens is already in double figures in unforced errors, 14 through five games, though she's finding success when she moves forward to the net.You can already see the gulf between Stephens tactically compared to Azarenka. On game point on her own serve she hits a great backhand slice down the line that results in a ball that any other Top 10 player would step in and crush. Instead, Stephens is a little slow to get to the reply and sends back a looping shot into the middle of the court. Voila, Vika is back in the point and eventually wins it.For the second straight game, Stephens is broken despite having game points. This is looking a lot like the first semifinal.http://twitter.com/dougrobson/statuses/29431314217398272111:55 p.m. ET | Azarenka leads 2-1.Tom Rinaldi reports on ESPN2 that the on-court temperature is now up to 120 degrees. That is very hot.Easy hold from Azarenka to consolidate the break and once again Stephens has a look at an easy service hold but finds herself in a multiple-deuce game. She's starting to loosen up though, in a good way. Big ace and eventually holds with a great crosscourt passing shot from the backhand side. Stephens is on the board.In the meantime, here's a nice look at Stephens' career day after beating Serena on Wednesday.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmgEqcyR6Iw11:45 p.m. ET | Azarenka breaks, 1-0.Stephens trying to rally to get a feel for Azarenka's ball. Vika's not having any of that. She's ready to go from first ball and breaks Stephens immediately. This could go quickly if Stephens doesn't tighten things up straight away. She's already spraying easy errors off both wings plus a doublefault.11:42 p.m. ET | Pre-match warm-upInterestingly, Azarenka asks umpire Kerrilyn Cramer whether the heat rule is in place. If invoked, the heat rule would allow for a 10-minute break between a second and third set. Shows the heat, which was measured at over 110 degrees on court during the first semifinal, is on her mind.As for Stephens, how will she handle her first Slam semifinal after the biggest win of her career, in her first match-up against the World No. 1? Tough ask for the 19-year old but she's got the weapons to make this competitive.The key for Stephens is the same as it was against Serena Williams. She doesn't need to pull a Li Na and run away with the first set but she does need to hold her serve, hold it relatively easily, and let the pressure build on Azarenka, who is one of the best returners in the game.Stephens will serve to start the match.Pre-matchSloane Stephens and Victoria Azarenka will meet in the second of two women's semifinals on Thursday at the Australian Open. The match will follow Maria Sharapova-Li Na, which is scheduled to begin at 9:30 p.m. ET. ESPN2 will televise both matches.Stephens, the No. 29 seed, is in her first Grand Slam semifinal after stunning fellow American Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. The 19-year-old Stephens is the first U.S. teen to get this far at a major since 2001. She has never faced Azarenka, the defending champion and No. 1 seed. Azarenka, who hasn't played a seeded player in her first five matches, needs to win the tournament to retain her No. 1 ranking.JENKINS: Women's depth catching up to the men's | WERTHEIM: Stephens seizes her momentNGUYEN: WTA No. 1 scenarios | Stephens all the rage | Li as entertaining as ever More Beyond the Baseline


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If only it was Sriracha.
I thought it read Cylon.
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You're right, jiggersgreen, this is not a great "deal". But is an opportunity to introduce yourself to this really great company. I found them here about a year ago. They have wide selection of spices - all very fresh. I've purchased 5 or 6 times from them - and their shipping and service is very fast and free over $20. They throw in an ounce of any spice of your choice. An ounce of most spices is a lot!
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@jiggersgreen: I went to the site and it says free shipping on all orders but a $3.00 spice it up fee for orders over $10.00 not $20.00. Am I not seeing the same thing you are? Plus there are more items that you can choose from as your free gift other than the one mentioned
Will this help me win the cinnamon challenge?
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If you have to buy something else to get it, it's not free, except in marketing-speak (also known as lying).
Ok, so not exactly a deal. But I am definitely using that site for Mother's Day. Free shipping and a free sample with every order? Sign me up.
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RE your other comment, if someone gives you something and you don't have to pay for it, it's free. That's pretty much the definition of free. Generally the samples businesses give away free with no purchase are very tiny. 4oz cinnamon with purchase is a generous amount-- it would take years to go through that much cinnamon, but then I don't bake much.
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A Missed Chance on Religious Freedom
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E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury Press).
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The problem with having the 10 Commandments on the grounds of the courthouse is that it suggests to jurors and judges and prosecutors that they should operate and adjudicate according to God's law, as opposed to operating and adjudicating according to the laws of the city, state, and nation. With regard to prayer before the meetings of city councils and other legislative bodies, I don't think that the potential threat to justice is as great, but I agree that Kagan's call for pluralism offers a better means of protecting religious liberty. - Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
If I was a resident of this town, I would hope to see minority voices leading the prayers, but I wouldn't want to see this happen because of a requirement from the courts. If the courts require minority prayers then they will be viewed as a meaningless chore at best or an unwelcome foriegn intrusion at worst. Minority prayers ought to be brought in by the will of the townspople and the board members, otherwise they're better off left out.
So Dionne's support of Kagan's pluralism would require that cities, towns and villages recruit or hire representatives of every religious or non-religious belief if none were available locally to offer a prayer or anti-prayer at every meeting or on a court designated rotating schedule.
I think the comments of Elena Kagan, Mark Shields, and Larry Weisenthal are thoughtful and to the point. I hope the following two comments, however, are not representative of residents of New York State where I have always lived. At this point I've lived in southern New York for many years and of course we all know that this area is not the REAL New York!
@Jansie I don't understand. Are you saying that southern New York isn't the real new York? Or that Greece, NY isn't? What does that have to do with the issue of public prayer?
Another issue I see with Kagan's position is that atheists could take advantage of it by demanding an atheist lecture in place of prayer. Or a prayer to Satan. Or a prayer to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Or what if neo-pagans wanted to bring in a druid or witch to lead the prayers? Now, I have no beef with neo-pagans, and perhaps in some places where neo-pagans are common and prominent in the community this would be welcomed. But to many people it would seem silly, and might even seem to make a mockery out of prayer. I don't agree with that view, but they are entitled to it.
Unless we want the government deciding which religions are "legitimate," we can't imagine a legal principle that would determine which forms of prayer are acceptable (and required?) and which are not.
The only sane solution is to leave it up to the local community which prayers they want and which ones they don't. Only the locals know which forms of prayer are meaningful to them, and requiring them to include prayers that aren't meaningful to them is just senseless. And it stands a chance to ruin public prayers as a community tradition by, as I said before, turning them into a meaningless chore or a forign intrusion.
So I say this should be a local issue. It isn't the federal government's job to force pluralism on places that don't want it.
Not sure what "chance was missed" on religious freedom. The plaintiffs wanted to create a naked public square in that upstate New York town; the majority of the Court rightly turned them down. It was Kagan who would create a religion-free zone, Dionne's claims notwithstanding.
I can offer my own experience in a different area: teaching religion/theology. With the exception of Catholic universities, my services as a Catholic theologian are pretty much unwanted at any State or most non-Catholic private schools of higher education. Back in the 1990s, the rage was eastern religion: reading the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION back then, you'd think that America was essentially a Taoist/Buddhist/Hindu country, given the search for theologians of those faith traditions. Today, be an expert in 13th century Somali Islam and you'll land a job. Be an expert in 13th century Christianity, and you'll elicit a yawn.
Which is to say that America, pace Justice Kagan's and E.J. Dionne's affirmative action drive for non-Christian ministers in Greece, NY, is fundamentally a Christian or Judaeo-Christian country. We have acquired an oversensitivity to minority "rights" to the degree that the majority no longer has the right to be comfortable in its identity in public, especially religiously. That trend would have been abetted if Kagan had prevailed in the majority. The lesson of this case for me is why we need to ensure that Barack Obama does not get to put another judge on the Supreme Court and why Democrats need to be evicted from the White House in 2016.
"In contrast to a legal regime insufficiently alive to the rights of minorities and dissenters" is a totally dishonest and untruthful opinion as a minority of non-religious atheists and other minoriity groups have used the courts to remove any mention of God, Bible readings, prayers from public school curriculums, graduation ceremonies, pre-game team huddles and religious Christmas exhibits in the public square. . Even a Jesuit University covered a religious symbol at rthe behest of President Obama or his handlers. The USA has become totally subservient to vocal minorities and compliant courts.
@ Warren Patton
No, the only sane solution is for anyone who feels like praying before the meeting of a government entity is to pray in private, in his or her home or car, or even in the restroom of the building where the meeting is to take place. Don't force people to listen to prayers to a deity they don't worship.
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Why can't that be a local decision? Many communities have long traditions of public prayer, and many communities see a lot of value in shared faith.
Let's consider an example. In New York, not far from where I live theres a town called Kiryas Joel. This town is basically a large Orthodox Jewish community, and this is reflected in its laws. The town is totally unlike the other towns around it, and of course many New Yorkers have a lot of animosity towards Kiryas Joel. But I don't. I see no problem with them running their community th way they do.
Now I could concievably say that they have no right to run a town that way- that it represents a breakdown of the seperation of church and state. And I could concievably say that this is problematic because they leave no room for a religous minority to feel welcome. But to say that is to miss the point. The community is an Orthodox Jewish one through and through-religous minorities have no place there. I would not feel welcome there- and niether would an atheist or a Muslim or a secular progressive of any sort. But that doesn't matter- it's thier town, and they have a right to live the life they do and form a community based on that way of life. It isn't the place of outsiders to deem their laws inapporopriate because they fail to meet standards based on ideals that the citizens of Kiryas Joel do not share.
Of course most communities are not as one dimensional as Kiryas Joel. In most towns where one religion dominates religous minorities will exist and will need to be accomadated. But in answer to Kagan's question- what if I was a Christian living in a majority Muslim or Jewish town that began public meetings with prayers of those religions- in this situation I would respect the community and try to live in harmony with them. I would not place myself above the community, demanding thatt they scrub their public square clean of all elements that did not suit me.
Of course many people would prefer to live in a town where the public square is religiously neutral; where religion is largely kept private and the public suare if completely secular. And that's fine. There are many such communities in America. I'm willing to guess you probably live in one now. But why does every commiunity need to be subjected to this standard? What about people who don't want to live in neutral communities? Is this pluralism?
Really bad guess, Mr. Patton. I have lived in six states and currently live in one of the buckles on the Bible belt, where there's no Democrat ever gets elected to statewide office, and there's a "Christian" academy or an evangelical church every half mile--many of them full of "Christians" earnestly praying that their Catholic friends and neighbors be born again so they don't go to hell. In evangelical la-la land, that's where we Catholics are destined to end up, after all.
Tell me, would you be offended by a Santeria prayer? Santeria is a form of voodoo, and Santeria priests offer animal sacrifices. Residents of south Florida are accustomed to finding dead goats and chickens on their courthouse steps, evidence of prayers for the favorable outcome of a court case.
If you can't quite stomach the mental image of a city council meeting that begins with slashing an animal's throat---well, the IRS recognizes Santeria as a legitimate religion. So if you allow one denomination in, you have to allow them all, unless you adopt the obvious solution of keeping religion out of the city council meeting.
But... I'm specifically against requiring every denomination to be allowed to lead prayers. If most people in the community are against seeing Santeria rites performed in the town meetings then by all means keep them out. It's not true that you have to either allow in every religion or none at all; you can leave it up to the locals which religions to include. That's what I was arguing for the whole time.
On the other hand, if Santeria was prominent and accepted in a community I think it would be appropriate for them to lead the prayers. Prebably they would have to forgoe the animal sacrifice, for practical reasons, but they could simply give a sermon or something. (Though I don't have any moral objection to animal sacrifice- I mean, I eat goats and chickens, so...)
As for the think about assuming you live in a secular community-well, I assumed you lived in New York. I'm not sure why. I was probably thinking of Jansie and his"we all know this isn't the REAL NY" comment.
As far as the Evangelical Christians (not "Christians" in scare quotes) they have every right to preach about hell and damnation on their own churches and academies. I do think public prayers should avoid controversial topics, like evangelisation and partisan issues. But still, I think it's a local issue.
As far as what Catholics should do in that situation there are two things: first off, they can create their own community for mutual support, and secondly, and more importantly, they should evangelize- try to change hearts and minds. I would object to going overthe heads of the locals to try to call down the authority of the federal government and force them to change. First, it assumes that any local culture that's not 100% hospitable to Catholics has no right to exist. Second, it could create bad blood between the Evangelicals and the religous minorities in their communities.
There are atheists on hthe 'net who make a hobby out of petitioning the government to force communities thousands of miles away from them to change. To do away with a town logo because it contains a picture of a church, or to do away with a war memorial because it contains a cross. (These are actual examples that I've seen,) This is where this sort of thing leads. I say again, why can't local communities decide for themselves to what extent they want to include religion, and which religions they want to include?


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I'm hoping someone with some lens experience can assist me in finding a novel lens that I read about some years ago. The lens produced a fisheye image along one axis and a narrower field of view along the other axis of the lens. This is a technical application and I'm not much concerned with image distortion since I will be filtering the image along the edges. The application is to monitor a narrow swath of the sky from a few degrees above the horizon on either side.
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An investigation is underway in Mount Carmel, Tennessee after a horse was found dead and police say four others are starving and neglected.
The owner of the horses, Henry Bailey, is a former alderman in town and says he was paying his grandson to take care of the animals. "I had the hay in the barn, everything there with all the intentions of feeding them. It's just I got let down by my grandson," adds Bailey.
Bailey says April 3 was the last time he wrote a check for horse feed, but he's not sure why the horses were not actually fed. "Let's put it this way, he was supposed to of bought feed," he said.
Now the four horses are in the care of Mustang Alley Horse Rescue in Greene County. A volunteer at Mustang Alley says on a scale of 1-10 the horses are all rated one, being in the worst condition and possibly days away from death.
Bailey says physical limitations kept him away from the horses. "As long as I was able to feed them, I fed them. That's all I can say. As long as I was able to and it got to the point I couldn't feed them," he said.
Police have charged Bailey with five counts of animal cruelty. He has a court date set for April 22.
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I guess it's not a very educated question, but I never quite understood why spacecrafts have to shoot up and can't just reach space by simply continuing an upwards ascent like an airplane.
Why do space crafts take off with rockets instead of just ascending like an aircraft until they reach space?
Aircraft rely on lift generated by interacting with the atmosphere and on using atmospheric oxygen to burn with fuel they carry.
Orbits aren't stable until you are high enough that there isn't enough atmosphere to interact with, and long before that the oxygen content drops too low to be useful.
So, to get to a stable orbit, you will need rockets eventually. Areospace types keep looking at hybrids (air breathing, lift generating while down low then switch to rockets as you get really high) because it does seem like a good idea, but so far the added complexity hasn't paid. Either the switching gear weighs too much, or the extra equipment adds too much risk of failure.
Maybe in the future.
For what it's worth, even though a rocket starts its flight going straight up, once it has traveled through most of the atmosphere it soon starts to change its direction so that it spends most of its flight accelerating in the "around the earth" direction (i.e. basically horizontal).
Also, to reach orbit a vehicle either has to reach a high enough speed, or a high enough altitude, or a high enough combination of speed plus altitude. A gun firing a bullet horizontally at 20,000mph would do the trick. Or, dropping a ball from 20,000 miles altitude would also work. Neither of these are practical altitude/velocity combinations.
On to your question. There isn't any fundamental physical reason why an "airplane" can't fly into space. A relevant definition here of "airplane" would be a vehicle that:
Note that both an airplane and a rocket generate their thrust from exactly the same physical principle - by accelerating and ejecting some mass.
The reasons that you don't see an aircraft-like vehicle accelerate and climb its way into space are practical engineering reasons, not fundamental physical limitations. Here is a hypothetical "airplane to orbit" concept that the laws of physics would allow:
Now here are some of the practical impediments to this actually being a buildable vehicle:
EDIT to add: more advanced discussions can be found at the "Selenian Boondocks" blog; start with the post "Part I : Air Launched SSTO" in the Orbital Access Methodologies section.
I looked up this somewhat cheezy Disney clip from the 1950s. It features a spaceplane idea, but alas the plane takes off like a rocket.
There are some reasons why you generally want rocket flight. In a vertical ascent you quickly clear the atmosphere. Within 90 seconds into rocket flight you are above 90% of the air. Air has friction and is generally not that much help in lifting you far. Aircraft can fly at a maximum of about 30,000m, and for orbital flight you have to go much further than that.
It is possible that ramjets or scramjets could be placed on a rocket. Once it reaches supersonic these could kick in and provide thrust without the need to carry an oxidant until you reach about 50.000m. The flight envelopes of modern combat aircraft reflect the safety limit. If you fire up the aferburners and go near vertical you will reach the "edge of space." Of course the engines flame out and your descent will be violent and deadly.
The business of spaceplanes is largely a load of BS. These ideas keep surfacing now and then, and fortunately we have not yet spent billions on such a worthless program.
It's because spacecraft are not generally designed to immediately start returning to the Earth once its fuel has run out, but to have reached the escape velocity of 11.2 kilometers per second at this point. It's then able to orbit the Earth continuously without having to use further fuel in the ideal case, as an example.
In short - A rocket works by exchanging momentum, AND at present airplanes simply do not have the ability to exchange enough momentum. In a rocket - Both the mass of the propellant as well as the high velocity of its exit from the engine system gives the rocket its momentum to propel itself into space. The propellant (fuel) attains its velocity by burning with an oxidizer in a high-pressure chamber creates a high energy exhaust which then funneled through a nozzle. This velocity, coupled with the right mass properties of the propellant, provides the power, or energy, required to get the vehicle into space. An airplane on the other hand requires air drag and lift to propel itself off of the ground... and when the atmosphere is to thin ... it cannot exchange momentum.
The US Airforce has been working with space planes - however due to the design they still need a ROCKET to lift them up into space. Pretty cool stuff - if you want some extra reading...
No. Most of the kinetic energy from a rocket is sideways (8 km/s) so as to let the spacecraft enter orbit. So if you want your orbital airplane, you need an engine that can get up to mach 25 inside of the atmosphere (so you can use relatively efficient airbreathing engines), you need: 1: a high-speed airbreathing engine (a scramjet) 2: a thermal protection system (to prevent the ship from melting) and 3: a small orbital maneuvering engine. If you want to get up to 8 km/s outside of the atmosphere, you need to use (relatively inefficient) rockets.
The highest altitude recorded for a jet airplane is just over 100,000 ft in round numbers. To attain low earth orbit you would need to reach about 100 miles in altitude or about 520,000 ft. As you can see a jet would only take you about 1/5th of the way up and you would need to switch to a rocket propulsion due to the lack of oxygen. My guess is that switching from a regular airplane/jet to rocket propulsion is an additional complication which might make it more expensive then just using rocket propulsion.
The problem has to do with the presence of air. Planes need the air for 2 reasons: oxidizer for the fuel they carry to generate thrust and drag on the wings to produce lift. No air, no thrust, no lift, no flying. So obviously, you can only fly so high until you start running out of air. Rockets need to go higher than this and so they are built to do without air. They carry their own oxidizer+fuel combination (in whichever form, solid, liquid) and actually these propellants take up a lot of volume (see the huge tanks on the Space Shuttle). Which is a problem because the rocket has to go through the thick air and there, it generates a lot of drag and rockets don't need drag to fly ! So the rocket wants to go through the thick atmosphere as quickly as possible which means shooting up.
rockets use newtons third law to take off this law is that for every action the is and equal and opposite reaction. if the rocket takes off like a plane the thrust will be used up too fast in addition when the fuel runs out the oxygen tanks fall of. so that is why rockets don't take off like planes


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I hear people ask "what is Forestbane/ Demonbane useful with?" often enough, so I did a little data-mining and came up with a chart. Yeah, some monsters show up in more than one Type – that's not because they are both, but there are some that are one type, and some that are another (ie. Infernal Wisps in the Glades, and Undead Wisps in the Cemetary).
By Type
Draconic: Dragon, Human, Lizard, Raptor, Wyrm
Infernal: Abomination, Construct, Demon, Dread, Human, Imp, Mummy, Psychophage, RockHulk, Wisp
Mythic: Giant, Griffon, Human, Imperial, Kraken, Lion, Minotaur, Wolf
Object: Object, Vigil
Sylvan: Devourer, Dryad, Psychophage, Scarab, Spider, Treant
Trog: Cyclops, Gnome, Goblin, Human, Imp
Undead: Ghost, Mummy, Skeleton, Spirit, Wisp
By Location
Draconic: Dragon
Infernal: Demon, Dread
Undead: Ghost, Spirit, (all the dream monsters)
Draconic: Dragon
Infernal: Demon, Psychophage
Mythic: Wolf
Undead: Ghost, Mummy, Skeleton, Wisp
Infernal: Abomination, Human, RockHulk
Mythic: Griffon, Human
Sylvan: Spider
Trog: Imp
Undead: Ghost
Draconic: Dragon, Human, Raptor
Infernal: Wisp
Mythic: Minotaur
Sylvan: Devourer, Dryad, Spider
Draconic: Dragon, Lizard
Infernal: RockHulk
Mythic: Griffon, Lion
Sylvan: Psychophage, Spider
Trog: Cyclops, Gnome, Goblin, Human
Undead: Ghost, Mummy
Draconic: Dragon
Infernal: Demon, Psychophage
Mythic: Kraken
Trog: Goblin
Undead: Ghost, Skeleton
Draconic: Human, Raptor, Wyrm
Infernal: Construct, Demon, Imp, Mummy
Mythic: Giant, Human, Minotaur
Object: Object, Vigil
Sylvan: Scarab, Spider
Trog: Gnome
Undead: Mummy, Wisp
Draconic: Dragon, Lizard, Wyrm
Infernal: Psychophage
Sylvan: Devourer, Spider, Treant
Undead: Skeleton
Draconic: Dragon
Infernal: Demon, Imp
Mythic: Human, Imperial
Trog: Goblin
Undead: Ghost, Skeleton


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what are your opinions of TODAYs android 10c apps?
So it seems that the 10c for 10 billion thing is going on continuously and each day new apps appear, does anyone have any input on todays apps?
fruit ninja, air sync (for doubletwist), Bedtime Battle, Flick Golf, Christmas HD, Read it Later Pro, Star Chart, NFL Rivals, Reckless Racing, and Beautiful Widgets
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Great pricing but I don't like how everyone is posting individual apps as deals. There are too many to post them all.
Its the reason i came here to ask instead of posting another "deal" on it, trying to find out what apps to buy based off what people think
I downloaded some at lunch. The Christmas one is really sweet, even if I will only be using it for a few weeks. The star chart one looks cool, but of course I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Fruit Ninja is reasonably fun.
I think Fruit Ninja may be the only actually good one in today's batch ... at least judging by the reviews in the market, many of the other games are flakey due to pushing things too far in terms of device compatibility. Also, I grabbed the golf one today and I have to say it's a let-down.
I am really enjoying the customizable Christmas wallpaper one. Maybe it's just because my tablet is shiny and new, but the graphics are beautiful and seeing my dog's picture with Santa hanging over the fireplace makes me happy.


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In German Language and Usage we just had the question German analog for "That's no rocket science". As a native German Speaker, I do not know which situations this phrase is used in. I understand it means the problem isn't too difficult. But can I conclude something about the time needed to solve the problem? Can it for example be used when simple and almost boring repeated effort is needed to solve the problem?
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Your understanding is correct. "That's no rocket science" simply means "That problem is easy or straightforward." In other words, you do not have to be a rocket scientist to solve it. It does not really carry any more information than that.
Incidentally "He is no rocket scientist" usually means "He is not exactly dumb, but not too bright either".
In addition to the usages given by Dima there are a few creative implications to using this phrase.
For example you can use it to suggest that normal Joe could do something himself. "Come on Joe just get in there and do it, it's not rocket science."
It is also used in reference to past scenarios that mystify people but all the clues are there and they just aren't thinking straight. You can imply that they should have thought of that themselves by saying "it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out ..."
The phrase "That's no rocket science" or "It's not rocket science" refers to activities that are not complicated, and thus aren't difficult to do.
It does not necessarily refer to the time one takes to complete the task.
In other words, the phrase generally refers to any activity that does not take too much "brain" work to complete, no matter how long it takes to do.
It's used often to put down or make light of a task/situation:
A: "Can you help me do this-task-that-is-difficult-for-me?
B: "Oh, just go do it. It's not rocket science. Go figure it out!"


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The Pirates are proud to have organized a number of minority partnership events. The Pirates community service, corporate contributions, and involvement in community-wide programs are based on the recognition that our strength as an organization depends on the well-being of the communities in which we live.
Swin Cash, founder of the Cash for Kids Foundation threw a ceremonial first pitch before the game. Kids from the Kids for Cash Foundation were in attendance and took part in a pre-game ceremony on the field.
The Pirates hosted a sports Luncheon in the Lexus Club at PNC Park. McKeesport native Swin Cash, founder of the Kids for Cash foundation, was the guest speaker.
In a pregame ceremony, the Pirates in partnership with the Josh Gibson Foundation honored two young people with $1,000 scholarships.
Youth and members of the Pittsburgh Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program (RBI) participated in a pre-game salute.
The Pittsburgh Pirates hosted their annual Diversity Networking Reception on February 3, 2015 at the Rivertowne Brewing Hall of Fame Club located at PNC Park. The event allowed for business professionals from the Greater Pittsburgh Area to not only network, but also learn how they can help one another with their business endeavors.
A variety of organizations were present at the reception, including Ford, the PPG Zoo and Aquarium, UPMC, PNC Bank and many others. Pittsburgh Pirates representatives were there as well, including the President of the organization, Frank Coonelly, who gave a brief speech on the team and diversity as a whole.
Throughout the event, guests were given the opportunity to interact with Pirates officials and the Pirate Parrot. Guests were also able to enjoy complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a cash bar. The evening was an overall success, ending with a Business Card Raffle, in which the Pirates gave away many prizes, including game tickets and player autographed items. The reception was an excellent opportunity for community members to interact with one another on a more casual level and work on succeeding in their career goals.
Highmark, Davis Vision Inc., United Concordia, Tickets for Kids and the Pittsburgh Pirates team up to provide free vision and dental screenings and complimentary Pirates game tickets to local youth. More than 120 local youth who do not currently have health insurance or have minimal insurance coverage received a FREE vision and dental screening at PNC Park on July 23, 2014.
Davis Vision eye-care professionals volunteer their time to bring this important service to the community, ensuring all children receive the vision and dental care they need. For children in need of follow-up services after the initial screening, a voucher is provided for a complimentary eye examination and a free pair of eyeglasses from Total Vision Care. In addition, dental and hygiene professionals will volunteer their time to provide dental check-ups and oral hygiene education.
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The directors of the Community Development and Purchasing Departments are dedicated to identifying qualified MWBEs who offer high-quality, cost-competitive goods and services, and matching them with the needs of the company. The Community Development Director actively seeks MWBEs through trade shows, advertising in local and national media, and working with business and advocacy groups.
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With a simple search in amazon one can see that the modern approach for parallel programming is to use your graphic card. However I am still a little bit skeptical about it. My last computer has an 8 core CPU which I need is enough for basic all my parallel needs, if I need more I will probably use MPI through a network using my old machines. All in all, Why and/or when should I use CUDA or another method which uses my graphic card instead of traditional methods like pthreads, java threads, boost threads or the new C++ 11 threads? What about using processes?
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Maybe because even a mid-range Graphics card is a couple of orders of magnitude faster than an 8 core CPU at the tasks it is very good at, which is highly parallel algorithms?
8 Core CPU == 8 threads minus any OS threads that are available for your Application ( and that is only if you actually have 8
512 Stream GPU = 512 Streams for your application to use.
Also the memory bandwidth on modern graphics cards are at least twice as wide and a few orders of magnitude faster than even the fastest chipset available for a general purpose CPU.
The question is confusing multi-threading with parallel concurrency which are not always used together.
GPUs aren't multi-threaded in the same way a general purpose CPU is.
That is they don't execute multiple instructions per stream, but streams can share data that they work on, which general purpose CPUs can't do well, at least not without compromising in space over time issues. It really is comparing Apples and Oranges.
A multi-core CPU is very good at MIMD work (Multiple Instructions Multiple Data). A GPU excels at SIMD work (Single Instruction Multiple Data). That means that if all your threads are running the same function, only on different data, then using a GPU is probably a good choice. A classic SIMD example is image processing, when all threads run the same algorithm on different parts of the image.


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You might notice something a bit different along S. Kansas Ave. Monday. Among those hustling into their workplaces or grabbing lunch, are a few men and women in uniform. They're not striking up conversations, they are simply, silently standing at attention.
It's called the Stand of Sacrifice. During the stand, military representatives will stand at attention as a way to honor their fallen comrades. It's taking place until 5 pm Monday at 800 S. Kansas Ave. and the public is invited to stand alongside them for a period of time if they wish.
The Stand begins a week of events in Topeka to honor our nation's veterans. It's the brainchild of Melissa Jarboe, whose husband, Sgt. Jamie Jarboe, died of injuries he suffered at the hands of a sniper while serving in Afghanistan. Melissa has made it her mission to carry out Jamie's dying wish to take care of his fellow soldiers and their families. For Melissa, that means being sure all servicemen and servicewomen are recognized for the sacrifices they have made. She has formed the Jamie Jarboe Foundation as a vehicle for accomplishing that mission, and has poured his life insurance into the endeavor.
When Melissa learned Topeka had no Veterans' Day parade, she decided to organize one. She then took it a step further. Why limit honoring our veterans to a single event on a single day?
If you miss Monday's Stand of Sacrifice, you can come to downtown Topeka Tuesday for view the Faces of Freedom Project. Stroll S. Kansas Ave. from 9 am to 5 pm Tuesday and you will see combat boots lining the street. Attached to each pair will be a photo of a military hero. Melissa first did this venture last year and ran out of boots, so this year's promises to be an impressive and moving site.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, Visit Topeka will assist by being the point location for a Patriotic Scavenger Hunt. Pick up your form at their office, 618 S. Kansas Ave., then visit memorials and museums around the area that pay tribute to American heroes to complete your form. Turn it in by 4 pm Friday to be eligible for prizes. Plus, veterans who stop in at the Visit Topeka office from 8 am to 5 pm Wednesday can enjoy free coffee and donuts.
Saturday evening brings a Salute to Our Heroes Gala which will honor veterans as well as the organizations which support them.
It all leads to Monday, which is Veterans' Day. The parade steps off at 11 am -- the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month -- through downtown Topeka (4th St. south on Kansas Ave., to 12th, over to Jackson, back north to 6th). The Jamie Jarboe Foundation is providing floats to honor veterans of each war. Come on out with your American flags to join the salute. The week ends with a 2 pm ceremony at the All Veterans' Memorial at Great Overland Station.
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It wasn't, it just wasn't in the first players handbook. Player's Handbook 2 defines classes for Avenger, Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Invoker, Shaman, Sorcerer & Warden.
My first, and so far only, D&D4 character is a bard. It works as a "Leader" type role, balanced between healing/buffs and some shiny damage effects.
I'd guess that they got stripped from the first 8 classes in PHB1 so that could have two examples of each of the new "Roles" attribute (Leader/Striker/Defenders/Controllers)
The first Player's Handbook was meant to capture the most accessible, easily explained character classes and races. The awesomeness of the bard requires a little more experience with D&D to really appreciate.
It's in PH2. As a marketing approach, they have to reserve classes (races/monsters/etc) that have a following for later books to drive sales. Also, see this wiki article for a history of the D&D bard.
This is not an official answer, but they could only include so many classes due to space constraints. They wanted to include a lot of the old favorite classes, but also wanted to include a few of the new classes to show what 4E as a system is capable of doing. Something had to be cut from the first Player's Handbook. They chose the Bard class along with others.
The only reason this is an issue at all is because everyone has their favorite class and they feel slighted if it their favorite that is cut; in this case the Bard.
Also it is my understanding that the Bard class was not completed by the time 4E was released. There were a few thematic issues they had to resolve for the class and they decided to devote their time elsewhere.
As a side note the Bard was not an initial class when D&D 1st edition first appeared as a game. It came out later, so the precedent for the Bard class not appearing in the first book had already been set. Some Old-timers do not see the Bard as a core class.
Well, there's a limited amount of space, and I think the bard just wasn't ready to go by the time the first PHB was ready, but it was one of the first classes to end up in DDI, long before the PHB 2 came out. I definitely consider it to be part of the main class roster.
The reason the Bard was removed from PHB1 was the emphasis on 4e of giving every class a distinct role, and making sure everyone had something interesting to do each round. Several classes, particularly as they were handled in earlier editions didn't fit in to this paradigm (although the Bard could have arguably been a leader instead of the Warlord, but the Warlord was one aspect of the Bard highlighted). There was likely also some "market research" going on, showing the Bard wasn't popular (The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is anvilicious about that), so it may have been taken out because most players wouldn't have gone for it (again, according to their market research, although Mike Mearls mentioned that there may have been a problem with that logic, in his example he talked about Gnomes though).


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Abel's identity for the dilogarithm (see the wikipedia page about polylogarithms) plays a role in web geometry as it is one of the abelian relations of the first example of exceptional web (Bol's 5-web) to appear in the literature.
I have heard it is important in other domains (cohomology of SL(3,C), algebraic K-theory, motives ). I would like to learn more about it.
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Insights on why Abel's identity is relevant in this or that field;
References where it plays a role.
Edit. I have just learned from this blog about Bridgeman's orthospectrum identity. Those interest in the question above might want to take a look at it.


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I want to choose JavaScript as my main development field, alongside HTML and CSS to become a developer commonly known as front-end developer. But I don't know how to become a JavaScript professional. I've read many books and learned the pieces including data types, syntax, tools usage (like IDEs, Debuggers, etc.), jQuery, etc. But when I look at some sophisticated JavaScript codes including famous libraries, I'm like "I never could write that code". What's wrong here? What step should I had taken that I didn't? I feel I'm missing something here to become a professional JavaScript developer. I also watched training movies, including Douglas Crockford's movies at Yahoo Theater.
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Your answer is experience. I'm afraid there is no other way to become good at it without practise. Try and create similar libraries to the ones you've looked at as an exercise. Keep reading but practise, practise, practise!
Really? Try it first.
Funny you should phrase your question this way. Most books on basic javascript do not help you understand why and how certain aspects of JavaScript should be used in order to achieve great code. What really REALLY helped me understand the more advanced side of JavaScript as well as best coding practices were the writings of John Resig, the lead engineer of JQuery.
Pro JavaScript Techniques
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
These help you understand how advanced JavaScript features should be used and why. You may also want to read up on Patterns and Agile Principles, and in particular the writings of Martin Fowler for more generalized thoughts on best coding practices.
You have to program ... a lot.
Check what Google Closure brings to the table.
If you chose this field, be prepared to be paid less and be considered less professional/good than c/c++/c#/java/etc.
This is usually the case, especially in terms of salaries. It's very easy to find really good js + html + css coders, but it's kind of hard to find really good c/c++/c# programmers. This is the problem the company I work for (around 300 employees) is facing now. Even students having a good grasp of the mentioned languages were paid better than seasoned JS developers.
Most JS devs learn from tutorials from the internet, and participate in open-source projects, which is quite a good thing - maybe find some FOSS project which uses JS heavily (front-end development for gnome 3, to give you an example) and contribute to it. This way you can gain some experience with the tools and languages.
Besides, find some good rated books on Amazon and read them. But remember, CODING is the way you learn, so start developing, besides reading ;)
I agree with what was said above, you just need practice. It's also important to understand the design patterns used in high-end javascript code. I think once you understand the patterns used and why they used them, it may become a lot clearer. Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Harmes and Diaz is a good start. Also take a look at Osmani's Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners.
Ninja's are normally just farmers or peasants dressed up in simple but sneaky identity disguising garb. But what makes a simple person a true ninja is a meaningful objective, pulling it off and then not getting killed themselves. So with that in mind why don't you find a javascript samurai demon, sharpen you coding katana and see if you can take the badboy down without killing yourself. If you succeed you'll make the world a better place for the other code farmers and find that you've become a ninja in the process. That or you'll be dead.
Good luck!
I wouldn't call me a master in javascript, but pretty good anyway. Read, understand and code from like these books:
That would cover the basics. Then explore the whole field. Try to learn as much as possible. Learn to debug code in Firebug. Learn a couple of javascript frameworks (somewhat decently) - Jquery being the easiest. Maybe Dojo toolkit, Mootools and Prototype. Try to read and understand the source code of javascript frameworks. Build a plugin in jQuery. Learn the Module pattern. There's a lot to learn..
But the most important rule of them all is:
Code and try to better yourself every day!
And don't just become a framework junkie who needs the latest plugin or framework to do anything good. Try to master the core language and do plugins or widgets from the ground up yourself. If you can't do that, then you ain't not great yet.
Definitely practice - but, IMHO, it's better not just to do busy work for practice; find a real problem to solve. Think of something cool to accomplish, and go write it. Find someone who want some javascript work done either for free (like for a charity or non profit) or for way cheap, and write code for them. In other words, your best pratice will occur doing something meaningful.
Also - I think javascript is a really interesting and actually very powerful language - but I learned more about programming in general in the college C class I took years ago than from any one source before or since. Learning C came with learning about how computers think, about memory in bits an bytes, and I had a pretty decent teacher who emphasized some really solid foundational programming practices. The guy that said learn another language weren't completely wrong - learning another langauge changes your view of programming a bit and makes you appreciate the similarities and differences.
My own example of this is a git client. Javascript doesn't handle binary data very well, and the naive implementation locks the UI for several minutes and allocates new objects fast enough to run out of memory before GC is triggered. Optimizing something like this leads to learning exactly what happens when the code is run, and since this understanding is impossible with poorly structured code you will learn to write javascript with a clear structure that is applicable to more typical applications as well.
Practice in the field and JQuery. This is the best advice I can give.
Don't learn JavaScript as your first language, and don't try to emulate the programming style that you find in JavaScript libraries. Most JavaScript programmers are hacks who gave me up on real programming languages like C++, C, Java, etc. The result is that their JavaScript code is a jumble of uncommented, undecipherable spaghetti code. I know, because I worked as a C++/Java/C# software engineer and am coming into the JavaScript world now.
So if you want to be a great JavaScript software programmer, go learn some other programming languages first and then come back to JavaScript.


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We recently returned from The National Needlearts Association's summer trade show in Ohio, where shop owners got a chance to learn about our new products for fall. The trip to Columbus was a blur of enthusiastic people, excellent food, and exciting yarns, and we had a wonderful time sharing the new fall yarns and pattern booklets. For this show, we decided to shake up Berroco's traditional booth arrangement by adding the Yarn Bar.
Styled to look like a juice bar, we offered up pitchers containing our new yarns, ready for shop owners and designers to sit down and knit a few rows. Warren and Norah managed to get some great photos during the show:
LEFT: the Berroco booth, RIGHT: our sales reps hard at work
LEFT and CENTER: Norah and Andra (Berroco's NE sales rep) tending the bar, RIGHT: Norah and me
LEFT: Barbara from Denise Needles models her newly finished Bayarri, RIGHT: The Yarn Bar in action
An especially big thanks to Lantern Moon for providing needles for each of the pitchers – their needles ensured a lovely knitting experience for all our yarn bar patrons.
The weekend flew by, and before I knew it the show floor was closed and the packing was starting… And another TNNA show was done!
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The yarn bar was a fantastic idea. I bet it was this Amanda's. She seems like a smart cookie. TNNA sounded pretty fantastic. Wish I could have been there. I live the knitting circles and inspiration.June 24, 2011
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Yarn Bar! I love it! What a fantastic opportunity to try out the new yarns. Great idea!June 24, 2011


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ICAP Nears Libor Settlement
Interdealer Broker to Pay Less Than $100 Million
ICAP IAPLY -2.17 % PLC is expected to pay less than $100 million to resolve a civil probe into the brokerage firm's alleged involvement in interest-rate manipulation, according to people familiar with the settlement talks.
The pact, which could come as soon as Wednesday, would be the fourth settlement in the long-running world-wide investigation into alleged rigging of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, and other benchmarks that underpin interest rates on trillions of dollars of loans and financial contracts.
London-based ICAP, a top interdealer broker, is set to pay significantly less than any of the three banks that already settled rate-rigging charges with U.S. and U.K. authorities. Barclays PLC, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group RBS 3.23 % PLC have agreed to pay a total of about $2.5 billion in settlements since last summer.
The expected deal with ICAP this week will be with only two of the three authorities leading the rate-rigging investigation and involved in the previous three pacts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority, the people familiar with the talks said.
The U.S. Justice Department isn't expected to be part of the ICAP pact, the people close to the deal said. One person familiar with the case said the Justice Department is still investigating ICAP.
The low level of the fine, compared with the first wave of Libor pacts, reflects in part how much smaller ICAP is than the three banks that already settled, according to people close to the talks. Another factor is that regulators are satisfied the alleged misconduct at ICAP was due to a few rogue brokers, without the knowledge or involvement of the firm's senior managers, one of the people said.
The exact amounts of the sanctions under the deal still are being hammered out, but ICAP is expected to pay significantly more to the CFTC than to the U.K. regulator, one of the people close to the negotiations said.
The settlement with ICAP is expected to echo previous deals by making public emails and text messages between traders and brokers allegedly colluding to fix rates, according to one person close to the talks.
ICAP is one of more than a dozen firms that remains under investigation in the Libor probe, including at least one other interdealer brokerage, according to people close to the investigation. These brokerages act as go-betweens for banks looking to buy or sell products that generally aren't heavily traded on public exchanges.
Regulators allege that ICAP brokers exploited this middleman role, helping to turn efforts by a small group of bank traders to distort interest rates into a world-wide scheme that successfully rigged benchmarks. In return, traders gave the brokers business to boost their commissions and other financial rewards, regulators have said.
Regulators hope to reach settlements with a number of other firms this fall, according to people close to the investigation. In parallel to the negotiations with the firms, criminal authorities in the U.S. and U.K. continue to investigate a number of current and former employees of banks and brokers caught up in the alleged manipulation, the people said.
Some of the individuals under scrutiny by prosecutors in the U.S. and U.K are connected to ICAP, according to people familiar with the probe. The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office summoned a small number of current and former ICAP employees for interviews this summer as part of its continuing criminal investigation, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported. It isn't clear how many people have been asked to appear for interviews.
U.K. authorities in June charged former UBS and Citigroup Inc. trader Tom Hayes with eight counts of conspiring to defraud by manipulating rates. Two of those counts related to his alleged efforts to manipulate Libor with the help of ICAP employees, prosecutors said. Mr. Hayes, who also has been charged with fraud in the U.S., hasn't entered a plea to either country's charges. Mr. Hayes said in a January text message to The Wall Street Journal that "this goes much higher than me."
Regulators have said that a quarterly "fixing fee" payment of about $27,000 by UBS to ICAP, which was shared among several employees at the brokerage, was a reward for their help in a Libor-rigging plot. Regulators in previous settlement documents described the arrangement as "corrupt." A top ICAP executive was included on emails about those arrangements, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
But ICAP in recent months has told authorities that those payments were innocuous and not related to attempted manipulation of interest rates, according to people close to the investigation.
In a statement in June, a spokeswoman for ICAP said that "neither the company nor its senior management was aware of any corrupt payment from any source at any time."
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Trustees Ask Voters for Extra $100K
PEASE TOWNSHIP – Pease Township trustees see the need to improve roads and keep streetlights on in the township, and they are asking residents for about $100,000 more annually to achieve the work.
Pease Township voters – except those living in Bridgeport, Brookside, Yorkville and Martins Ferry – will see two additional levies on their ballot when they go to the polls Nov. 6. The first levy asks voters for 1 mill specifically for maintenance of roads and bridges.
The second 1-mill levy, meanwhile, would go toward the township's operating expenses. Money generated would be geared toward the elimination of slum and blight in the village, as well as paying utility bills to keep the street lights operational, according to Trustee Michael Bianconi.
Information from the Belmont County Auditor's Office indicates each levy is expected to generate $49,562 annually, and that the two levies together would result in about an extra $100,000 in revenue for Pease Township.
A home valued at $50,000 would be assessed an additional $15.31 annually in taxes for each levy, resulting in a $30.62 yearly additional cost for the property owner if both levies were approved.
The same homeowner with a homestead exemption would pay a lesser amount – an extra $22.96 for both levies, according to the information.
Pease Township has 45 miles of highway to maintain, Bianconi said.
"We need to keep up on our roads," he said. "Everything is going up. It is what it is.
"The federal government isn't giving money to the state, the state isn't giving money to the county and the county can't give money to the townships," he added. "We have to take care of ourselves."
In 2003, Pease Township received $67,898 in local government funds, according to information provided by Bianconi. Ten years later, for 2013, that figure is slated to be $27,376.
Two separate levies are necessary in Pease Township because the money designated for roads and bridges can't be co-mingled with that in the general operating fund, he continued. Bianconi noted the second levy will go toward paying the electric bill for the 175 street lights in the township.
"We'll probably be shutting off a lot of them if this doesn't pass," he said.
Bianconi believes voters will see the money as well-spent.
"Of all the taxes you pay, I guarantee you use these services," he said. "All ages, all genders … we all need roads to travel on. And people want to have better driving conditions."


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I'm new to Oracle databases. If I have understood correctly, materialized view is a view which result set is saved as a physical table in the database and this view/table is refreshed bases on some parameter. If view is saved as a physical table, why not store the data into a table in the first place? So what is the benefit of using materialized view instead of a table?
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One of the biggest benefit of using a materialized view is that Oracle takes care of keeping the data in sync. If you have a separate aggregate table, you are responsible for keeping the data synchronized. That generally requires a reasonable amount of code and a decent amount of testing and most organizations manage to make mistakes that leave holes that cause the aggregate table to get out of sync. This is particularly true when you try to implement incremental refreshes of the aggregate table.
Another major benefit is that, depending on the settings, Oracle can use query rewrite to use materialized views when users issue queries against base tables. So, for example, if you have a bunch of existing reports against a detail table that produce daily, monthly, and yearly aggregate results, you can create a materialized view on the base table that aggregates the data at a daily level and the optimizer can utilize that materialized view for all your existing queries. This makes it much easier to optimize reporting workloads in a data warehouse without trying to go and rewrite dozens of reports to use your new aggregate table or to mess with
Materialized Views are automatically updated as their base tables are updated.
One good case for using MVs is that some times you want to aggregate data and get this summary information from large tables frequently and quickly. Without materialized views, you have to either deonormalize some of your tables and maintain the aggregates via code or repeatedly scan large sets of rows. Either way is not always acceptable specially with dashboard and similar online applications. If you keep the results in a separate tables, you complicate your application code and as @Justin Cave says, you will be in charge of making sure that the manually aggregated data is in synch. with the original table's data.
Not an Oracle person, but another use case would be third party solutions. They generally do not support you making changes to their designs but a MV would be "invisible" to their code but provide access to custom reporting/data extracts.
It's not free in that it will cost have storage costs and potentially impactful insert/update time costs but that may be offset by the time spent retrieving the materialized data versus a "straight view" or creating actual tables and maintaining the surrounding ETL.
Finally, doing so may void your support contract with the vendor, consult-your-lawyer-blah-blah-blah
Instead of going directly to Materialized views let me explain Views.
Basically views are exist logically unlike tables. If we want to hide certain columns to users we can not do using tables. Creating a view we can achieve the security.
Use-case: if a view is internally related with 10 tables along with group by and functions have millions of rows, it takes much time to execute.
So here comes Materialized views helps us to get data faster. Materialized views are physically exist in database. Whenever the base table is updated the Materialized view gets updated.


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The intersection of Walnut and Front streets is closed while work continues on a stormwater project along Walnut Street. This project will replace underground drainage systems and protect Front Street from cave-ins that can occur during heavy rains. A detour is in effect but local businesses remain open and accessible. The project is expected to be completed in April.
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WACO (February 7, 2013)--Hawaiian Falls is holding a Polar Plunge Saturday to benefit the Special Olympics of Texas, a nonprofit group that provides year-round sports training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Adults and children will jump into frigid water and some participants will even be in costume.
The event dives into action at 11 a.m. at the Hawaiian Falls facility on Lake Shore Drive.
On-site registration is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and is $60 per adult and $30 for children under 18 years old.
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Is there a (more than a terminal) desktop environment/distro that can be run using only a keyboard - I have an old computer on which I cannot use a mouse - the PS/2 port is broken and it won't accept USB
I recommend using Xmonad with Dmenu, this works using shortcuts and is basically a window tiling system, it also has a very small footprint when it comes to resources, perfect for old machines.
Have you tried all the USB ports? Also, have you tried looking in the BIOS to see if it might be disapbled? If it has USB, it's hard to believe that all the ports are broken, although something may have blown it out in the past.
That said, I think you can do it, but it might be painful. It would depend on what system you're using. For mine (Ubuntu with Gnome), there is a setting under "Universal Access", in the tab "Pointing and Clicking", for "Mouse Keys" that enable you to use the keyboard.
I've head that X-Windows has a way using Ctrl-Shift-Numlock, but that doesn't do anything on my system.
I believe KDE has a setting under the mouse control panel called 'Move pointer with keyboard (using the num pad)'.
You might want to take a look at ratpoison.
Other tiling window-managers, like dwm, should do. However, if all you want is to run a bunch of tiled terminals, try dvtm (a console lookalike of dwm).