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Palladino: Hoop star adjusts to football
High school football games are still one month away. Practice for some teams gets underway next week. But the game is going strong right now for youth players, and if you wander over to a Pop Warner practice at Hamilton Park, you may see a familiar figure on the sidelines.
If you think that 6-foot-6 guy looks like Waterbury's all-time leading scorer in basketball, Phil Lott, you would be correct.
Phil? Football?
"Yes, I am working with the Waterbury Patriots," Lott explained.
No, he's not a convert from the hard court to the gridiron, but when his sons wanted to play, Lott hooked up with the Patriots. He is now a vice-president of the Pop Warner franchise. So Phil, are you now an expert on football?
"Not at all," laughed Lott, "but I know how to organize and run a team."
Lott said the Patriots are making a solid comeback, and through the efforts of president Dan Sharkis and vice-president Jim Geisen, Pop Warner is alive and well in the city.
Lott has been impressed by the passion and intensity of football families.
"When I first came out, I thought, 'Wow, they're out there every day, in the rain and the snow,'" Lott said. "I'm in my third year now, and I don't miss a thing."
The Patriots and The Knights: Practice is underway for both of the city's youth football programs, the Patriots of Pop Warner and the Knights of American Youth Football. Both programs want you to know that you can still register.
Otto Arroyo of the Knights explained that the AYF program is for boys starting at age 7 and going into second grade, all the way up to grade 8. The difference between the two programs is simple: The Knights do not have weight restrictions.
"The instructional team is for kids in second and third grade," Arroyo said. "We call them the 79ers. There is a coach on the field for every play. They run plays, but there is no one over center. It is strictly instructional."
Each grade, from fourth through eighth, offers competitive football.
Pop Warner has weight restrictions, with teams ranging from age 5 through 14.
Both Lott and Arroyo said that parents are welcome to observe practices and see how the teams are run; most importantly, registration is still open. If there is a budding football player in your household, there is time to sign up.
You can watch the Knights work out Monday through Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Wilby High's Fred O'Brien Field. The Patriots train at Hamilton Park from Monday through Friday, also 6-8 p.m.
For more information on the Knights, visit waterburyknights.com, or call (203) 757-8890. To learn more about the Patriots, visit waterburypatriots.com, or call (203) 510-4239 or (203) 565-3024.
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Rogue apps are a serious threat to our industry, but they have also exposed luxury transportation to consumers who otherwise may have never considered it. The apps have done this at high prices, proving that customers are willing to pay a premium for convenience. If done intelligently, we can convert this threat into a series of advantages.
By harnessing advanced technology, and by using innovative social media marketing, rogue apps have become a threat that our industry cannot stop talking about. Users can book trips on their smartphones anywhere, anytime—and automated dispatching allows low cost operation. Rogue apps have used social media to portray our industry as the bad guy, while painting themselves as heroically battling an overly bureaucratic industry that hides behind politicians. But despite their apparent threat, rogue apps may actually save the livery industry—we can turn their success in social media, pricing strategy and technological innovation against them.
Social Media: Strength in Numbers
Rogue apps, particularly Uber, move from city to city, quietly building their businesses. This divide-and-conquer tactic has allowed them to fly under the radar while expanding. When the livery industry finally noticed, it pushed back the only way it knew how: by flexing its political muscle. Anticipating this move, Uber triggered a massive backlash through social media. How did the livery industry respond? With silence. We continue to wait for failing political action, but we do not have to—we can use social media, too.
Social media requires a large audience to be effective. It may be an insurmountable task to run your own social media campaign; these efforts will be more successful if companies pool their resources. Think of the famous "Got Milk?" campaign created by the Dairy Farmers of America. Limousine associations are perfect places for these types of campaigns to start at both the regional and national levels.
However, be aware that social media can seriously backfire. A social media campaign should highlight your benefits, not your competitor's faults. While it is acceptable to use a competitor's failure as a comparison point, it should not be the focus. Social media gone awry can drive consumers away, cast your company in a negative light and even evangelize consumers in defense of your competitor. Be prepared for unexpected responses and act quickly to stop or redirect failing social media attempts before they spin out of control.
And let's never forget that we are not the bad guys. As a collective industry we are very large, but Uber, after recent investment rounds, has been valued at over $3.5 billion, far outweighing any single company in our industry. Uber is known to engage in some shady practices, such as gouging prices by raising rates at their own discretion during busy times, automatically billing the consumer and leaving no recourse. I do not, however, recommend attempting a smear campaign.
A better approach is to highlight our positive attributes, such as advanced bookings, which Uber does not allow. We can even extend the advanced booking capability to book anywhere in the world through affiliate networks. Advanced booking provides the peace of mind that the car will be there at the desired time. A savvy marketer can focus on these and the other differentiations discussed below to demonstrate why your company is the superior option.
Rethink Your Existing Pricing
Many consumers view rogue apps as low-priced alternatives to black cars. Uber's marketing team intelligently twisted the pricing models of two different markets by using taxi-style rates in the black car industry. The result? Existing black car consumers perceived the taxi-style distance/time rates as bargains, while existing taxi consumers perceived the rates as only a small premium to upgrade to a better alternative. In reality, Uber's rates tend to be competitive or more expensive. For example, Perfect Limo Service's all inclusive rate from my house to JFK Airport is $165; Uber's rate is "$179-$238." Although Uber's rate seems like a bargain at only $3.90/mile (Uber's rate/mile for the NYC region as of Sept. 2013), its calculation tells a different story.
However, I strongly oppose using price competition as a selling tool. It is the cause of many problems we face as operators. Many operators see no alternative, but Uber teaches us that, for certain consumers, price is not as important as convenience. It is far easier to use a rogue app than it is to calculate a rate and call multiple companies for price quotes—a convenience premium consumers are happily paying for. In the case of my house to JFK airport, that premium is 45 percent.
While corporations have become more savvy at negotiating low rates, individuals lack corporate buying power and are becoming lazier in their purchasing, a trend that will continue as the economy improves. With improved customer apps we can catch and exceed rogue apps' convenience. In addition to mobile booking, new dispatching technology will allow us to compete with their ASAP response times. Combine these changes with our unique ability to provide future and affiliate booking, and you have a recipe for a lot of new revenue.
Uber also demonstrates that customers are not only willing to pay a premium for convenience, but for rapid service as well. It may be time to consider adding a surcharge for ASAPs, explaining to customers that the growing volume of ASAPs is driving up costs. Rather than increasing prices for everybody, the surcharge only increases rates when absolutely necessary.
The other option—completely changing your rates— is a huge hassle. You need to generate new rate tables (unless your reservation system can auto-calculate rates), create new rate policies and train employees to communicate the new rates. It may be easier to modify how you frame your rates. Go back to the rate I mentioned earlier, from my house to JFK airport. If I framed my price in Uber's terms, it would look something like this: $7 (base charge) + $2.31/mile + surcharges + gratuity. Some companies may feel uncomfortable quoting prices this way. It seems shady—probably because it is.
The problem lies in what behavioral economists refer to as the "reference value." Regardless of how the price is framed or if certain charges are left out, the first price that the consumer sees becomes the reference value. Repeated exposure to other rates can cause slight deviation in the reference value, but it has surprising staying power. The first price the consumer sees is the price the consumer will use to decide if a rate is high, low or neutral, regardless of whether the rates came from entirely different metrics (per mile vs. flat, for example).
Price can be the difference between huge profits and going out of business. Price changes need a detailed strategy for implementation and communication. Employees need to be trained to communicate prices and be prepared to field questions from consumers about the new rates and policies.
Technology: Join the Frontier
Browsers and mobile devices have evolved to the point where they can run programs just as powerful and complex as computer programs. New web services that can be used to enhance your company are created all the time. Besides flight verification and tracking, mapping services can be used to ensure accurate addresses as well as search for points of interest. Affiliate networks, such as RateButler, have web services that can be integrated to provide more rapid access to affiliate rates. Finally, reservation systems can create tools that allow consumers to automatically integrate trips into their calendars and travel itineraries, keeping everything in one place. On the dispatching end, most GPS providers offer web services that fully integrate their data into reservations systems, allowing for self-monitoring trips. This data can also be used to ensure fast, accurate billing.
Countless tools are also available to track and improve marketing, which reservation systems can integrate. Social media tracking and web search tracking, such as Google Analytics, provide tools you can use to monitor marketing campaigns and identify how to better spend limited marketing dollars. Integrating these tools to track booking sources will allow accurate identification of which marketing channels are most effective.
It may also be time to update your reservations system— but keep in mind that switching reservation systems is expensive and time-consuming, and all too often that money and time are wasted when data is just copied from the old system to the new. A system change is an opportunity to clean out junk data and remove/merge duplicate items. Either you or your software provider needs to do this to ensure a smooth transition. To maintain service levels, you need to ensure that the software company properly trains you and your staff and provides easy access to customer support. If you use a third party answering service, you need to ensure they can access the new system and that they are properly trained on it as well.
By using social media, pricing and technology more effectively, and combining them with the advantages our industry already has over rogue apps, we can learn from their achievements and turn their strategies into our own successes.
Our diverse fleets allow us to provide more booking options than rogue apps. Uber has limited itself to handling only ASAPs. We have no such limitations and can harness affiliate networks to book transportation globally. Using a base of operations, we have ways to regularly check the quality of vehicles and chauffeurs, allowing us to deliver a higher quality product. The rogue app's only true advantage is its technology, which is easily replicated.
There are already web services that do what rogue apps do. GPS data can be sourced from in-car units or smartphones, flight verification and tracking are already ubiquitous, and there are many quality mapping options. Browsers have evolved to be just as effective as installed systems, while internet speed and uptime are now at a high enough level to confidently run an entirely web-based system. Expect to see reservation systems that solve most or all of these problems debuting this fall.
Once the technology is in place, we can turn the rogue app business model against itself. We can provide more options and convenience, and we can be comfortable modifying our prices to profit from that added convenience. A kick in the butt from rogue apps may have been just what our industry needed. //LD
Contributed by Daniel Sutich
After graduating with a mechanical engineering degree from Northwestern University, Daniel Sutich returned to his family's business, Perfect Limo. Dan left Perfect Limo to launch a software company, Perfect Chauffeur, which will be debuting its revolutionary new reservation system for the luxury ground transportation industry, NS-1, at this fall's shows. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is observing the 13th annual National French Week through Nov. 12 to celebrate the French language and the numerous Francophone cultures throughout the world.
Several events are free and open to the public:
Nov. 4, 7 p.m., Milne Library Room 105
Kara Szamborsky, a 2011 Geneseo alumna, will discuss study abroad programs and their value in a career pathway.
Nov. 5, 7 p.m., Welles Hall Room 111
Cultural evening and study abroad presentations.
Nov. 7, 7 p.m., Newton Hall Room 201
Film screening of "L'auberge espagnole" (with subtitles)
Nov. 11, 7 p.m., Newton Hall Room 203
FREN 375 presents the film "The Rocket"
Nov. 12, 4 p.m., Welles Hall Room 111
Guest speaker Eileen M. Angelini, professor French at Canisius College, will address "The Legend of Maurice 'Rocket' Richard: An Inspirational Story That Crosses Borders and Cultures."
Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Sturges Hall Auditorium
The Geneseo String Band performs and the screening of "Crac."
National French Week activities at Geneseo are sponsored by the Department of Languages and Literatures and the Geneseo French Club.
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Is there a way by which I can get a list of CIK of all registered stocks at the SEC?
The EDGAR FTP should have all of the information you need. Here is the list from that page in text format. Keep in mind a given CIK can be associated with multiple names through time.
As of now, I know of no good method.
The tedious part about all of this is that there is no company name standard apparent to me, as CIK company name, exchange company name, and legal company name can all be different. I have to get my hands dirty with the method I use.
I only trade options, so I download the CBOE's master list in csv and input into my database. I think the stock exchanges post something similar.
This is the tedious part: you can use the established company name to ticker search which is difficult to parse or this other search that gives everything on a given result. I use the second search.
For this, I made a simple php script that iterates through each ticker I receive from the CBOE, searching first the entire company name then each word individually, both except for words like "the", "company", "corporation", "inc", etc and dump the results into a database.
You'll see that with the "other search" there are two results: a company page if there's only result or a company list if there're multiple. Both are easy to parse.
When there's 1 result for the search with the "sanitized" entire company name, I just went with that initially and started on the ones with multiples (rare with full name search) or no results (sometimes with full name search). Over time, I have confirmed all manually.
The manual inspection never ends. Companies change names and tickers.
I will now parse with jeff m's link.
Yahoo Finance has a mapping of tickers to CIKs, which is visible on their SEC Filings pages, e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=KO+SEC+Filings
This page links to documents on EDGAR, and at the bottom of the page there is a link, "View All Filings on EDGAR Online", which contains the cik as a URL parameter:
And indeed, Coca-Cola's CIK is 21344.
Incorporating pabtorre's code for easier reading:
This can probably be tidied up a bit but I gave it a try and it worked.
Cerin's comment referenced a discussion thread that lead me to discover in fact you can query EDGAR directly with ticker names. it's not clear to me why this wasn't apparent before, perhaps it's a new feature. If you go to EDGAR's Company Search page you can type in a ticker and get the associated CIK and companies filings; here's the result page for KO again - even better, the data is served up as XML, making it very easy to parse.
The following is a list of every CIK at the SEC:
My hard-fought results (14,452 CIKs and their tickers):


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Softball - Girls Junior Varsity
The JV softball team is traditionally home to the inexperienced and enthusiastic. Practices focus on the very basics of the game in the early going: throwing correctly so that arms aren't sore after the second practice, keeping eyes firmly glued to a ball being caught in the outfield or batted from the box, leading, smart base running and crisp infield play. As a coach, I focus on defense first and that has paid off in the last several seasons, when both infield and outfield defensive plays have kept the Bears either in the game against a hot-hitting opponent or have allowed us to pull out close games by making crucial outs. We have also had the good fortune to have inexperienced but very coachable pitchers over the years and a smattering of second or occasionally third year players to help run the defensive effort in the field and lead the offense with good bats. I look forward to more of the same this season.


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WACO (November 26, 2012)--Two men and a woman were held Monday in the McLennan County Jail after they were arrested and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity in connection with a failed robbery.
Henry Lee Stanchiel, 41, Cynthia Ann Dawson, 41, and JC Lee Kirby, 28, all were ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bond each.
Kirby also was held on a parole violation without bond, according to McLennan County Jail records.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the trio was arrested after a vehicle in which they were riding was stopped late Saturday night in the 2600 block of LaSalle Avenue.
A man and woman who had checked into the Motel 6 in the 3100 block of S. Interstate 35 reported an armed man had attempted to rob them.
The man was armed with what turned out to be a BB pistol.
The would-be robber demanded the man's wallet, but the man refused to hand it over.
The woman ran to the motel office and called police.
Meanwhile the armed man fled to a parked Chevrolet Suburban where two other people were waiting and the trio fled in the SUV.
The SUV was later spotted on La Salle.
Officers stopped it and arrested the three occupants.
Officers also recovered a weapon from the vehicle.
No one was injured, Swanton said.


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Does a non-Jew have an obligation to get married like the Jew does?
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Rabbi Achai Gaon, in Shiltos (165) states that non-Jews are obligated to marry and have children.
See also Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in Igros Moshe (E"H book 4 ch. 29) where he concludes that the obligation of Pru Urvu (be fruitful and multiply) is an obligation on all of mankind, as a communal commandment. This also seems to be the opinion of Drisha (E"H ch. 1 note 2). It is the individual mandate to have children that was only given to Jews.
See also Yevamos (62a) where apparently Rabbi Yochanan held that one fulfills his obligation with non-Jewish children he had before his conversion to Judaism. (Rambam however adds that those children must have also converted.)
(UPDATE: on reflection, since non-Jews do not have the ability to effect a legally binding Kidushin/Nisuin, they couldn't be obligated to marry, at least not in the same sense as a Jew.
Noahide-law adultery involves not a married woman, but a woman who is living together with a man without the formal institution of marriage, aka "be'ulas ba'al".)
Apparently not. Rambam (Laws of Marriage 1:1,4) states that Torah law (for Jews) requires a marriage to be effected in the presence of witnesses, and outlaws non-marital sex. But neither of these applies to non-Jews.
Nor would they be required to marry (or have a non-marital sexual relationship) in order to have children. The Gemara (Sanhedrin 59b) states that the mitzvah of "be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28) is one of the ones that was not repeated at Sinai, meaning that only Jews are obligated in it.
(To be precise, the Gemara says that it was repeated - in Deut. 5:26, by implication - but that this was done in order to teach us how halachic enactments have to be repealed, rather than to make it binding on non-Jews. Presumably, the She'iltos (cited in Barry Frank's answer) would understand this Gemara differently: this mitzvah is repeated for two reasons - to make it obligatory on non-Jews as well as to teach us about the rules of halachic repeal.)
It would seem that there is only one positive obligation among the Sheva Mitzvos B'nei No'ach, which is to carry out justice. These 7, from the standpoint of the Torah, are the only legal obligations on non-Jews. Since this obligation is unrelated to marriage, I would conclude the answer is no.


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SMC baseball erupts for 19 runs in World Series opener
Pioneers down Walters State 19-11 in a shootout to move ahead in winners' bracket; next game is Monday afternoon
Published: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 11:57 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 11:57 p.m.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — In the third inning, with both starting pitchers getting knocked around pretty good, Spartanburg Methodist baseball coach Tim Wallace had a message for his hitters.
At Grand Junction, Colo.
Double elimination
Game 1: Central Alabama CC 6, Palm Beach State 4
Game 2: Midland College 12, Kaskaskia College 2, 5 innings
Game 3: SMC 19, Walters State CC 11
Game 4: Connors State 10, Navarro College 9
Game 5: Palm Beach State vs. Kaskaskia College, Noon
Game 6: Walters State CC vs. Navarro College, 4 p.m.
Game 7: Neosho County CC vs. Cochise College, 9:30 p.m.
Game 8: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, Noon
Game 9: SMC vs. Connors State, 4 p.m.
Game 10: Central Alabama CC vs. Midland College, 9:30 p.m.
Game 11: Game 7 loser vs. Game 9 loser, 1 p.m.
Game 12: Game 8 winner vs. Game 10 loser, 5 p.m.
Game 13: Game 7 winner vs. Game 9 winner, 9:30 p.m.
Game 14: Game 11 winner vs. Game 13 loser, 5 p.m.
Game 15: Game 10 winner vs. Game 13 winner, 9:30 p.m.
Game 16: Game 14 winner vs. Game 15 loser, 5 p.m.
Game 17: Game 12 winner vs. Game 15 winner, 9:30 p.m.
Game 18: If necessary, 9 p.m.
Championship game, 9 p.m.
"It might take 20 runs today, guys," he said.
When it was 9-9 after four innings, his statement was sure looking true.
SMC didn't get to 20, but close, and until the end, seemed to need every bit of an offensive explosion to take a 19-11 win Saturday against Walters State in a first-round game of the Junior College World Series at Suplizio Field in Grand Junction, Colo.
With the victory, top-ranked SMC (46-13) moved into a 4 p.m. game Monday against Connors State (Okla.) in the winners' bracket.
The Pioneers, who made the tournament for a second straight year and sixth time since 2001, are looking for their first national championship. They scored four runs in the top of the first inning and it looked like it might be an easy day.
But with SMC starter Dylan Rogers having a rare rough outing, it was anything but easy.
"I was sweating," Wallace said. "I thought you couldn't sweat out here in this climate."
You do, he was told, but it evaporates so quickly.
So did that 4-0 lead in the first.
And the 9-6 lead in the fourth.
"It was a back-and-forth game and a nail-biter for quite a while," said SMC left fielder Shell McCain, who went 4-for-5 with two walks and three RBIs. "But I feel like we always have confidence in our bats, one through nine and beyond."
An example of the beyond part was pinch-hitter John Leopard in the ninth, finally a comfortable lead, launching one over the left-field wall for his first home run of the season.
Wes Rogers had four hits, Collin Steagall had three, Matt White had a run-scoring triple and another RBI hit, and Champ Rowland hit a home run in the second to give SMC a 5-2 lead.
"(Walters State) is a good-hitting ball club," Rowland said. "But we can hit the ball, too. We felt like Coach was serious when he told us that we were going to have to score 20. … Sometimes our pitchers have those days. They pick us up plenty of times. It was our turn to pick them up."
Rogers entered the game with a 6-1 record and a 2.57 ERA. In his previous six games, he went 5-0 with a 0.78 ERA. Even with a four-run lead before he even took the mound Saturday, he didn't last long. Just when it appeared he was settling down and was one out away from ending the third inning with a 5-2 lead, he gave up four straight hits and was pulled.
Former Union County High School teammate Rickey Rice came in and gave up a hit and the lead, Walters State going in front, 6-5. Rice walked the first two in the fourth, and went 3-and-0 on the next hitter before getting him to pop up, and then was also lifted.
Josh Escoffier, who was supposed to be the set-up man in late innings to get to closer Cody Mincey, came in to finish the fourth. Pitching coach Matt Williams called Escoffier "the bridge," but he went from the fourth into the eighth before Mincey finally got the last four outs.
"That was a long bridge," Williams said.
It was 15-10 heading into the eighth, when Elliott Caldwell singled, stole second and came home on an RBI hit by Steagall. In the ninth, Rogers and White reached, then Caldwell doubled them both in. McCain added an RBI single, out trying to stretch it into a double, and Leopard provided the long ball off the bench to finish it.
"I felt OK in the ninth," Caldwell said. "Other than that, I never felt safe."
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WACO (December 31, 2012) -- You might know what it feels like to rush your wife, sister, or daughter to the hospital when she goes into labor. But what if you had to do it three times in one night?
Local couple, now grandparents, Bryant and Suzanne Stanton did just that over the weekend. The two were expecting three grandchildren to be born over the holidays. Two from their daughters, and one from their daughter in law.
But they never thought all three would come at once.
"It didn't seem like a panic, it was just really funny," Bryant Stanton said.
It all started when Bryant and Suzanne took their daughter Julie Stanton to the hospital on Saturday. Julie thought her water broke, so Bryant and Suzanne checked her in at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco.
"We took Julie because we were just scared that her water might have broke," Suzanne Stanton said.
"Hillcrest took her and kept her there."
But on the way to the hospital, the plot thickened.
"I got a call and found out my sister-in-law's water broke," Julie Stanton said.
"I mean, what else can I do but laugh? We've been pregnant together and now we're in labor together."
What happens next sounds like it came right out of a movie. The Stanton's other pregnant daughter started going into labor while visiting Julie in the hospital.
"She was breathing hard, then she squeezed my hand really tight, and I was like 'ok'," Suzanne said.
"She looked at me and said 'not today, I'm not having my baby on the same day.'"
At 5:35 p.m. on Saturday, Julie Stanton gave birth to Kendle Stanton.
At 1:39 a.m., the Stanton's other daughter gave birth to baby Ian Feathers. Finally, at 2:40 a.m., the Stanton's daughter-in-law gave birth to baby Everett Stanton.
Three healthy babies born within a nine hour span.
"Life is stranger than fiction. We threw out a couple of scenarios when the girls got pregnant," Bryant said.
"What if they all went into labor at the same time? Well be careful what you wish for because it came true."
All three mothers left the hospital on Monday, and are now at home resting and enjoying life with their new babies.


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WEIRTON - Madonna's 6-foot-11 big man, Josh Martin, made a foul shot with 6.1 seconds showing on the clock Saturday night for a thrilling come-from-behind win against Bridgeport, 57-56 in the Dube Dome.
The winning free throw capped off a comeback from a 12-point deficit in the third quarter and not only did Martin make the winning basket he recorded his second straight double-double with a team-high 13 points and 10 rebounds, six of which were offensive boards.
"Josh has been struggling, but he keeps working hard and tonight some of that hard work paid off," said Blue Don coach George Vargo, whose team was winning it's second game in as many nights increasing the season record to 4-7. "I'm really happy for him because he got two buckets in the paint going down the stretch in addition to the free throw."
Bridgeport, like Madonna playing a games on back-to-back nights, was coming off a win at Toronto Friday night and, after a nip-and-tuck first half, seemed to be cruising with a 12-point lead at 45-33 with 1:40 left to go in the third quarter.
For the Bulldogs, losing their 11th of 14 starts, everything seemed to come apart in the fourth quarter. After making 4-of-4 freebies in the first three quarters of play, the Bulldogs could scratch out just 3-of-14 from the foul line in the fourth quarter.
"We missed seven straight foul shots to start the fourth quarter and a couple of them were in the one-plus-one bonus situation," said Don Cash, who normally plays three seniors and five sophomores. "Madonna beat us with the hustle plays for loose balls and offensive rebounds. When you give a team like that second possessions, they're going to make you pay.
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Madonna 57, Bridgeport 56
Bridgeport 13 9 23 11 - 56
Madonna 11 10 15 21 - 57
BRIDGEPORT: Roth 3 3-4 11, Fields 2 1-2 5, Kreiter 5 0-2 13, McGrath 1 0-0 2, Williams 7 3-7 19, Dyson 3 0-3 6. Totals: 21 7-18 56. 3-pointers: Kreiter (3), Williams (2), Roth (2); Rebounds: 18 (Williams, 6); Turnovers: 9.
MADONNA: Baire 1 0-0 3, Guio 5 1-2 11, Ewusiak 3 0-0 6, Bowser 3 0-0 7, Mazur 1 0-2 3, Shreve 3 0-0 9, Carnes 1 1-1 3, Stakias 1 0-0 2, Martin 6 1-3 13. Totals: 24 3-8 57. 3-pointers: Shreve (3), Mazur, Bowser, Baier; Rebounds: 35 (Martin, 10); Turnovers: 10.
"It's the little things that make the biggest difference in tight games like this. Our effort gets better and better and we've been in position to win several games in the second half of the season, but we haven't done it because we're not doing the little things to win."
In addition to missing at the foul line in the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs had difficulties from the field, too. For example, after Martin made what turned out to be the winning foul shot with 6.1 seconds left, the Bulldogs quickly got the ball down the floor into the hands of Parker Dyson, whose uncontested layup missed the mark as time ran out.
Madonna sophomore, Caleb Baier found nothing but net from deep in the right corner for the final score of the third quarter leaving Bridgeport with a 45-36 lead going into the final frame.
Baier's bomb ignited an 11-0 run to open the fourth quarter that got the Blue Dons within 45-44.
Finally, Bridgeport sophomore Q.J. Williams, who led all scorers with 19 points, made the second of two free throws to get his Bulldogs on the board after a drought of 3:14.
When Bulldog senior Dallas Fields stole the ball and drove for an uncontested layup at the 2:25 mark, Madonna was down 53-47.
That's when Martin went to work. He pulled in an offensive rebound and put the ball up for two and after Williams drove the lane for another close in goal, Martin did it again. That cut the Bridgeport margin to 55-51.
Madonna's George Stakias, a 6-foot sophomore, got his only goal of the game on a short jumper in the lane to cut the lead to 55-53.
A skirmish at the 40-second mark resulted in a technical foul against a Bridgeport player so freshman Nick Mazur, Madonna's best foul shooter, went to the line, but missed both freebies.
There was a foul against a Madonna player during that same play, so Bridgeport senior, Jon Kreiter went to the line in the bonus situation and also missed both free throws.
Madonna had the out of bounds possession at midcourt because of the technical foul and sophomore point guard, Levi Shreve nailed one from behind the arc, his third three of the game, to give the Blue Dons their first lead of the game at 56-55 with 19 seconds left.
Bridgeport senior Aaron Roth went to the foul line after being fouled attempting to shoot and made the second of two to knot the score at 56-56 with 15 seconds remaining.
Martin was fouled in the act of shooting on the next possession. He missed his first free throw attempt, but nailed the second for the win.
"This is the type of win that every team needs when they're struggling like we are," Vargo explained. "We had the win last night against Weir, our city rival, and now a win like this really means a lot to our young kids. Hopefully, they are beginning to realize what it takes to win games."
Junior Nate Guio scored 11 points for the Blue Dons and Shreve added nine.


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Vatican reverses Cleveland church closings
Back in July, Cleveland's Bishop Richard Lennon welcomed a Vatican inquiry into his decision to close parishes, and interpreted it as a review of his leadership of the diocese. "This visit will be an opportunity to gather extensive information on all aspects of the activities of the Diocese and will allow for an objective assessment of my leadership," he said.The result is a startling decision [PDF from Cleveland Plain-Dealer] to reverse Bishop Lennon's closure of 13 parishes. As the FutureChurch organization put it, "This is a landmark decision. For the first time the Vatican has powerfully upheld the rights of Catholics to have an appropriate voice in determining the future of their parish by overruling a diocesan bishop's decision to suppress 13 parishes."What will happen next? That depends on whether the bishop will accept this "objective assessment" - or appeal.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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In our diocese a parish received some type of such decision and the diocese contests it as "open for funerals-maybe" and nothing has happened or is happening. There was a great outdoor liturgy on its steps just before Christmas and...the diocese continues to stonewall inquiries.While I am delighted with this decision, the outcome is still in the bishop's hands. Where is he going to find clergy to staff these parishes? And, if he does, will he send someone so unacceptable as to make them shells of the past or increase flight? And what will the Vatican do..It is the life of the faithful that is still squeezed and whatever lay leadership is yet there can be easily undermined. Perhaps this is a"victory," but it hardly addresses the role of the laity in THEIR parishes just because "papa in the Vatican" said that the diocese must do... something.
This is *really* interesting. Good for those parishioners for following the process. Lesson learned: in a church tussle, hire a good canon lawyer.It appears that Bishop Lennon was overruled because he failed to follow the correct process. Istm that he could redo the exercise, this time remembering to consult his presbyteral council and to publish a decree, and shut down the parishes again.I wonder if any legal-adviser heads are rolling in the chancery.
Jim, it could be the case that Lennon ignored the counsel of those legal advisers who advised him to follow the process more closely. Or at least, in my experience, that is very often the answer when you wonder what someone was thinking in a case like this.
Regarding David Pasinski's comment about finding priests to staff the parishes; is there anything similar to the Glenmary Home Missions for urban areas? I only know the little I've read about them,but the mission churches seem to have a very involved laity, I wonder if that could be replicable with larger congregations.
What we need is less canon law and more common sense.
So wait, I'm confused. Since "the Vatican" is ALWAYS the bad guy, ALWAYS in the wrong, is this development a good thing or a bad thing?
Although I ususally disagree with Bender, I think this is an intersting point. The "appeal" to the Vatican recognizes something, but it is unclear how to read it. If it had said "no" -- as is the usual case -- would we indeed be lamenting this as "business as usual" with Vatican bureaucracies? I think there is a sense of trying to beat the diocese by doing better in acanon law fight, but is that the approach that most really want?
It's positive for everyone but the bishop, who has egg all over his cassock. Or so it seems.I was recently in a lovely little Cleveland church that, as I recall, was slated to be closed. Polish parish, perhaps. St. Barbara? The way the Church is losing members, small church buildings should probably remain open, and the big barns should close. Intimacy has a lot to recommend it for nurturing community. Consolidation just saves money.
"What we need is less canon law and more common sense."Bob - these parishes were closed in a way that flouted canon law; that they are now open again is because canon law was enforced. I'd say what we need is just canon law, justly applied.
Bender lamented: "Since the Vatican is ALWAYS the bad guy, ALWAYS in the wrong, is this development a good thing or a bad thing?"Read your history, my friend. This is not a development so much as a time-dishonored way of operation for The Vatican.
Finding priests is not a problem. All one has to do is ignore disciplines such as celibacy and males-only, and this church would be overwhelmed with candidates and returnees.There is no priest shortage problem. There is a problem of a failure of leadership, innovation and spinal columns among the bishops.
Canon law: law written by, approved by, enforced by and existing for the overwhelming benefit of (ta dum ....) the clergy.
Right,Jimmy Mac.Canon Law places decsion making in the hands of clergy only.If one banm find flawed technicalities or overstepping of bounds, it doesn't mean that a decsion properly handled(by clergy) can't be reinstated.Boston is watching as reorganization comes with its putative "collaboration."BTW, Jimmy mac, I didn't think that spines were what bishops lacked, but I guess Ijust get more and more cyncial as I watch them and their supporters.
Cleveland's Bp. Lennon was Apostolic Administrator in Boston in 2003 after the abrupt departure of Law. Jason Berry's book "Render unto Rome, The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church" (2011) describes in detail the parish-closing work of Lennon leading up to such events as years-long vigils and him saying final Masses under police escort at parishes he had suppressed. The viciousness and venal hostility toward faithful Boston Catholics for which Lennon was directly responsible is recorded by Berry in disgraceful detail. On arriving in the troubled Ohio diocese, "Lennon approached Cleveland like a banker redlining loans in poor neighborhoods." (p. 264). The suggestion that Lennon made some technical errors in process woefully under-represents what he has done to Catholics there. And the Law in question may be not only the Canon one but also the Bernard one, still. (p. 347 re Nuncio Sambi). An honest report on Lennon from the Vatican inquiry would make interesting reading after Berry's book.
Interesting development in light of NCROnline's current article about one of the Catholic communities affected by Lennon's behavior:See http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/cleveland-parish-remains-communit....
Joseph J. --No period at endhttp://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/cleveland-parish-remains-communit...
What is most surprising to me is that the Vatican handled this in such a way that inevitably the bishop was bound to be highly embarrassed publicly by the report. Bishop - 0, Parishes 13! No old boys club protecting one of their own this time. I wonder how many of those reports of deep divisions in the Curia which have been surfacing recently are true. Looks like there might even have been some basic sort of Curial change. Is that too much to hope?
Ann O. -- My recollection is that events around Cleveland were more complicated than the above suggests. Lennon's welcoming of the Vatican visitor was sort like you inviting the sun to rise tomorrow and welcoming it. I apologize for not noticing earlier Paul Moses's link to his previous post and the Cleveland.com article link, which pertain. http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=14405 http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/07/visting_bishop_will_review_bis.html IN March 2009, Lennon had announced his plan, starting: "The Church is about people and their faith, not about buildings " People of St. Peters's parish took him at his word, gave him his building to sell, and went off to find their own. Their story is at http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/cleveland-parish-remains-communit... It is unclear to me whether the parish announcements close out the matter or whether the Vatican visitor's report is yet to come.
Lennon's March 2009 plan for closing parishes and achieving vibrancy:http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
Again, retired bishop, "Mort", has yet to announce his findings on the parish closures and process. There appears to be two divided opinions on his appointment - 1) it was asked for by Lennon; 2) he was directed to do this via Rome because at that time there was no papal Nuncio.It will be very interesting to see how and if Vigano acts on "Mort's" findings or if the findings are translated into Vaticanese - thus, saving face.Was involved in one church ownership issue in New Orleans - the issue was between a religious order and the local archbishop. The appropriate Roman dicastery found in favor for the religious order but, given the customary process, Rome announces this in the same way US civil courts use "nolo contendere" - they merely make a statement that the archbishop's decision is not supported by Rome. Nothing more and nothing less. And in fact nothing changed.Would suggest that this is also the way things will go in Cleveland.It is surprising that this decision was made given the "reported" continued influence of Law - but, he has retired now although he continues on many committees. Some have felt that B16 has now realized that Law is a liability and has not been good for the church.


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Some words are written without hyphens (nonaggression, nonbeliever), and some words are written with a hyphen (well-intentioned). Is there a schema in the use of a hyphen?
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In English, there are three types of compound words:
For the most part, compound words that are created by adding a prefix are not hyphenated. For example, there are the words anteroom, extraordinary and coordinate. Some exceptions to this rule are (from the link above):
Your original example of "well-intentioned" is also explained here:
So, why isn't nonaggression hyphenated? It can be broken into non + aggression, so it is formed by adding a basic prefix onto the noun. In doing so, it breaks none of the exceptions to the rule: "aggression" is not capitalized, hyphenating the term doesn't avoid confusion, a vowel isn't repeated, the compound only consists of 2 words, and it is perfectly readable without a hyphen.
I recommend the following two articles:
Hyphenated Compounds: When and Why?
Unfortunately, the news in those articles isn't good. The distinction between hyphenated and non-hyphenated compounds is largely driven by convention, and while there are some rules of thumb, you have to be prepared for numerous exceptions and arbitrary differences between countries.
I am not only a published writer, but I am also a trained court reporter and freelance proofreader/editor. Professionally, at least within the career of court reporting, reasons for hyphenating or not hyphenating certain words can vary. What follows are two reasons off the top of my head why one might see certain words (and even the same word) hyphenated one place and not another:
I found the following pages very helpful:
Both your examples that do not have hyphens are words with negative prefixes. Words that include a negative (or positive) prefix will usually be written without a hyphen.
Examples: antimatter, indecisive, unwilling, probiotic, and nonaggression.
If the word includes an adjective that is neither directly negative or positive but is instead otherwise descriptive, then you should include a hyphen.
Examples: strong-armed, evil-minded, ill-adviced, and well-intended.
"well" is a borderline case, but it is not 100% positive. It's between neutral and positive, not one of those words you would use as a prefix in the same sense that you use pro, un, in or anti.
I hope this makes sense.
EDIT: Upon reading the above answer I now realize there are further prefixes that are neither positive or negative but still should not include a hyphen. I don't think it would be productive for me to quote the full list but words like extraordinary, infrastructure and transatlantic certainly seem to prove my theory a bit flawed. The point remains, however, that there are certain prefixes that are usually used without hyphen.
There are certainly differences between US and Australian English, where we (Australia) have a tendency to hyphenate more than the US does. This is particularly the case where the un-hyphenated version is difficult on the eye: reenter, reelect, deescalate, and many of similar form.
In my part of the world these would normally all be hyphenated, except perhaps in the Murdoch newspapers, but even that is probably debateable.
I would think we also hyphenate almost all non- words (non-aggression, non-negotiable, etc). I also think hyphenation increases as the second word length increases.
There is an historical element to hyphenation. Compound words we commonly spell unhyphenated now were once two words. Then, as they became more commonly used, they became compound, hyphenated words. Finally, when used enough, they became one word. Usage seems to determine when a hyphen is used. The guide websites cited above suggest "consult a dictionary", but my 1890 Webster's Unabridged and my 1820 copy of Encyclopedia Britannica show very different usages of the hyphen from my current OED or American Heritage. (Some words reverse this process, as the "EnglishPlus" citation suggests, when they fall out of favor: "solid-state" becomes (currently preferred) "solid state".O
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I've exiled my commander using Mimic Vat. Do the tokens it creates from it deal commander damage?
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No. The Commander rules state (CR903.3) state: "[Being a commander] is not a characteristic of the object represented by the card; rather, it is an attribute of the card itself. The card retains this designation even when it changes zones." and drives the point home with the last example: "A permanent that's copying a commander (such as a Body Double, for example, copying a commander in a player's graveyard) is not a commander."
No, it is an at attribute of the card itself, not a characteristic that is copyable. From the Mtg Comprehensive Rules:
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Editor's note: This is the second in a nearly year-long series of stories and sweat-laden vignettes chronicling the training regimen, pitfalls and pratfalls of two Statesman-Examiner reporters and their teammate. The intrepid trio plans to compete in all three increments of next July's Valley Girl mini-triathlon at Liberty Lake (Spokane Valley). So, Jillian Michaels, we meet again. Before your DVD workouts I purchased were left to collect dust somewhere behind the box set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and behind Rocky and Bullwinkle, you almost vanquished me. But, unluckily for you, I happened to have youth and a cockroach's tenacity to survive your mountain climber routine on my side. For those of you that might now be familiar with Ms. Michaels, she is the tough-talking and toned physical trainer from popular reality show The Biggest Loser. For those of you that aren't sadists or Navy Seals, her workouts are challenging. Now that I am committed to preparing for a sprint triathlon next year, to honing my body as well as my endurance like the sparkling, keen blade of a katana, we encounter one another again on the field of calisthenics combat. I'm prepared for you this time. I have all I need: towel to mop up the puddle you leave behind after I out-exercise you into a liquid state and water to wash you off my floor. I have even started keeping a journal of my training endeavors, to better track my progress, bolster my strength and exercise (or is it exorcise?) my weaknesses. Below are excerpts, taken randomly from said journal, so that you may witness how I am getting into fighting trim. Tremble, Jillian, tremble. Day 1: Hhhmmm, artichoke and shrimp cheese pizza! I heart pizza. Hey, check it out, a copy of The Never-ending Story! I haven't watched this movie since I was 12. Hello, familiar butt-shaped couch indentation. Day 2: Mom: You need to wake up and go running. Don't forget to make me coffee before you leave. Me (in mature, non-whiny tone): But mommy, it's 4:30 a.m.! I'm too tired. Mom: That really wasn't a request, you know. Me: inarticulate grumbling noises as I kick off the covers and get up. Day 3: Reality sinks in. Holy Twinkies, it's only another 350-something days until the Valley Girl Triathlon. I need to go for a run. 30 minutes later: No, really, I'm quite all right, sweet elderly lady eyeing me with trepidation and wondering why I'm panting harder than her Bassett Hound. I prefer not to think of myself as winded, just a mighty wind. Day 4: Jillian, you soul-sucking, brass-voiced harpy, she-beast. I hate you. God, how I hate you. 20 minutes later: I'm sorry I called you names, Jillian. You are beautiful, I'm just mad with jealousy. Please, don't hurt me anymore. Day 5: Go swimming at Lake Gillette with friends and triathlon partners Beau and Jamie. Feel invigorated and ready for more outdoors activity. Nobody drowns. Put the kayaks in and paddle around the lake. Also remember that kayaking isn't part of any self-respecting triathlon…unless you happen to be on the rescue crew, helping a floundering swimmer. Anyway, all in all it was a lovely day, cruising about on the water and wondering at the majesty of nature and the serenity that comes with taking care of your physical well-being. Because this is the only body I have and its powers should be used for good. Jamie: Who wants to go to Rancho Chico's and get deep-fried ice cream? Me: Me! Memememememe…. To be continued. Have you run a triathlon? Do you enjoy exercising in the great outdoors? Share your story and offer my team suggestions and me by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What is the main difference between linear cryptanalysis and differential cryptanalysis? For example in relation to DES?
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Differential cryptanalysis works on differences. Linear cryptanalysis works on linearity. Neat, isn't it ?
Instead of speaking of how they differ, it is easier to list their common features. Both kinds of attacks:
With differential cryptanalysis, the known plaintext/ciphertext pairs must be organized in pairs where both plaintexts differ by a specific difference ("difference" being a XOR, a subtraction... whatever works well algebraically with the algorithm at hand; for DES, this is XOR). The "approximation" is that this input difference will yield another specific difference on the output with a probability which is somewhat higher than what could be obtained with pure randomness, and the exact difference which will most probably appear depends on some of the key bits. Successful differential cryptanalysis normally requires chosen plaintext/ciphertext pairs (the attacker gets to choose the plaintexts or the ciphertexts).
With linear cryptanalysis, the approximation is a linear formula (i.e. a bunch of XOR on bits) which links together some input bits, some output bits and some key bits, with a probability somewhat higher than what could be obtained with pure random. This "linear formula" works best (i.e. is fulfilled most often) when the hypothesis on the involved key bits is correct, so the analysis yields a few key bits.
The most salient difference between linear and differential cryptanalysis is the known/chosen plaintext duality. For linear cryptanalysis, known random plaintexts are sufficient, but differential cryptanalysis requires chosen plaintexts, which, depending on the context, may or may not be a significant problem for the attacker.
Linear cryptanalysis is easier to grasp, so begin with that one. This PhD thesis is a nice introduction. For differential cryptanalysis, read this well-explained article.


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STEUBENVILLE — Two teenagers who made threats to the victim in the Steubenville High School rape case were released under house arrest after the girls made appearances Wednesday before Jefferson......
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Why cut these felons a break? Let them go back to school and participate in school activities. They threatened to harm the victim. They should not be allowed to return to school by the BOE & Superintendent, but kept in juvenile detention until their court date. Again we see a misdirected judge in Steubenville who just doesn't get it - Rape is Rape and anyone who covered it up or threatened the victim needs to be jailed. Steubenville has real problems with realities.
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I heard that trading firms employ CEP platforms such as StreamBase, Marketcetera, JBoss Drools, and etc., to implement trading systems. I wonder which one is most popular and the recent trend of related technology.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -Beginning Wednesday morning, parents were allowed to begin enrolling their children into Topeka public schools.
The beginning of the new school year usually leaves kids excited, anxious and a little nervous to meet their new classmates, but changes this year in funding could create more panic for parents.
April Cohagan's daughter switched schools in an effort to boost her grades. "We moved her to chase and grades went way up and we were real pleased", she said. But at enrollment today, the family got a surprise. "There was no transportation out there for A.Y.P. students and it sends my kid walking to school six miles.
The funding for the busing they used was provided through the "No
Child Left Behind Act," which Kansas received a waiver from two weeks ago.
Communications Director Ron Harbaugh says, "At this point the funding used to bus these kids is gone, so if they want their student to go to a school thats not in their neighborhood, they'll have to pick up the cost themselves to get there."
April now is forced to make a difficult decision. Keep her daughter at chase where she excelled, or choose the closer school, where she'd have transportation, but perhaps see her grades take two steps back..
She says, "Where's that leaving our children? Is it leaving them behind by taking away our busing? Do we move to another district? That's not always an option.


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May 20, 2010
The best and brightest minds in science will descend on New York City for the 2010 World Science Festival, June 2-6. New York University will be among the hosts for the highest-profile event of its kind in the United States. Now in its third year, the World Science Festival will feature 40 programs in scientific disciplines ranging from astronomy, physics, and genetics to neuroscience, robotics, and mathematics. The Festival's programs will also integrate traditional arts disciplines – dance, theatre, music and the visual arts – to underscore that science is everywhere.
The Festival will conclude with its Youth and Family Street Fair in Washington Square Park on June 6. This free, day-long public event showcases the intrigue and pure fun of science via a non-stop program of interactive exhibits, experiments, games, and live demonstrations. For more, click here. Among the June 6 activities will be "Author's Alley," in which scientists read from and sign their works. Dennis Shasha, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and co-author of Natural Computing, will be among the featured authors (Discovery Theatre, Kimmel Center, 8th Floor, 2:30 p.m.).
"Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, a fact that often gets lost in the science classroom," said Festival co-founder Brian Greene. "The World Science Festival is dedicated to bringing science to general audiences in a new way, revealing the excitement, wonder, and inspiration of cutting-edge discovery."
Among the NYU-hosted events are the following:
· "Our Genome Ourselves," Thursday, June 3, 8-9:30 p.m., Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium: There is a revolution underway in the world of medicine. As researchers identify the genetic variants responsible for cancer, schizophrenia, and diabetes, and doctors tailor medications and diagnostic tests specifically for your genomic makeup, we inch closer to personalized medicine. But what does this mean for you today? And how will it affect your health care in the future?
· "Einstein, Time, and the Explorer's Clock," Saturday, June 5, 12:30-2 p.m., Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium: Nobel prize-winning physicist William Phillips takes us on a voyage to the lowest temperatures ever recorded. What is an atomic clock and why do they keep better time when they're cold? And just what is the relationship between speed, temperature and relativity? Phillips will show us with experiments what happens when ordinary objects are taken to the edge of absolute zero.
· "Cool Jobs," Saturday, June 5, 5-6:30 p.m., Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium: Imagine hunting extraterrestrial life for a living. Or getting paid to study South African penguins. Meet scientists, including André Fenton, a visiting professor at NYU's Center for Neural Science, with some of the coolest jobs in the world.
In addition, NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life will host the announcement of the 2010 Kavli Prize laureates (June 3/invitation only). First bestowed two years ago, the Kavli Prizes are international awards that recognize scientists for their seminal advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.
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6 Habits You Didn't Know Were Keeping You Alive
We could all probably start making an effort to live more healthily, but most of us either can't find the time or are too busy eating Oreos to walk to the treadmill. Well, in a twist of fate so beautiful you want to make passionate love to it on the couch with the blinds open, science is now claiming that the most seemingly innocent things you do (or did) on a daily basis can be just as good for you as a lifetime of exercise and carrot juice.
#6. Brushing Your Teeth Can Protect You From Heart Attacks
Scientists have long suspected that bad oral hygiene and heart problems were somehow connected, though they could never explain it beyond the widely popular "fangletoothed weirdos are the enemies of God" hypothesis. Dental specialists at Bristol University now believe that Streptococcus, a common bacterium responsible for tooth decay, might be the one to blame as they discovered that it also causes blood clots when it enters the human bloodstream.
Just look at this douche.
Streptococcus is most often restricted to the oral cavity, but all it takes is one bowl of Cap'n Crunch to shred up your mouth and let the bastard loose in the rest of your body. Once inside, it promptly encases itself in a cocoon that protects it from antibiotics and your immune system.
Sort of like the Batmobile.
With time, the armored bacteria start to lump together on the arteries and form clots, effectively cutting off the blood supply to your heart and killing you to death.
In case of cardiac arrest, try to squirt some in your left ventricle.
You really shouldn't need any extra reasons to brush your teeth, but even so, the Bristol discovery will probably still have a big impact on the entire world, from new treatments of cardiovascular diseases right down to exorbitant toothpaste prices as Procter & Gamble inevitably tries to market Crest as heart medication.
#5. Using a Cell Phone Can Protect You From Alzheimer's
Over the last decade, cell phones have been subjected to more negative press than BP. No one today could imagine life without these devices, yet we keep hearing about the many forms of cancer they supposedly give you and the countless children they orphan each year because their parents were trying to call someone an asshat via text message while doing 70 on the interstate. In an effort to ratchet up the anti-cell phone hate speech, researchers at the University of South Florida decided to try to prove that prolonged use of mobile phones can actually give you Alzheimer's.
"Wait ... I forgot what we were doing."
They tested their theory by blasting a couple of laboratory mice with a hellstorm of electromagnetic waves -- the equivalent of talking two hours a day on a cell for seven to nine months. Contrary to everything we know about science, none of the mice transformed into superheroes.
Results not typical.
What did happen was that the mice seemingly developed an immunity to Alzheimer's.
The way it apparently works is that the electromagnetic waves from a cell phone penetrate the brain and proceed to erase buildup of a certain protein responsible for lesions and dementia. What this means is that extended use of a cell phone could not only vaccinate you against Alzheimer's, but also possibly help kill the disease even after its onset.
Annoying people will outlive us all.
So, in an effort to vilify cell phones even more, the scientists in Florida stumbled across arguably one of the most promising finds in the history of Alzheimer's research. And if you think about it, texting while driving also prevents Alzheimer's, because you almost certainly won't live long enough to develop the disease.
#4. Attending Daycare May Have Protected You From Leukemia
Unlike cell phones, day care already has a pretty decent rap. It stimulates social growth, provides a healthy learning environment for children and gives parents a place to stash their kids while they're cleaning rat traps at Shoney's for $6 an hour. On top of all that, recent studies are showing that sending your kids to day care might actually help protect them from leukemia.
But hot glue guns can still cause trouble.
In 2008, cancer research specialists from Berkeley analyzed 14 separate studies on leukemia encompassing over 20,000 children worldwide and came to a surprising conclusion: Children who started day care at age 1 or 2 had a whopping 30 percent less chance of coming down with childhood leukemia compared with the ones who didn't. The reason? Kids are dirty little bastards.
Childhood cancer is most often triggered by an infection early in life. By exposing your kids to a day care filled with horrible frolicking stinkchildren, you also expose them to a torrent of infections, thereby stimulating and prepping their immune systems.
"Ready everyone? OK, swap bandaids!"
Although childhood leukemia is incredibly rare (it affects only 20 to 30 kids out of a million) we can all agree that parents should take all possible steps to protect their children from it. Especially if the solution proposed by science is dumping them off at an institution to be raised by someone else.


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May 20, 2013
The spring 2013 saw over 6,800 course sites activated in NYU Classes with nearly 38,000 students and 5,100 instructors participating in those sites, exceeding the expected number of sections activated based on Blackboard course site activation rates -- an impressive beginning to the third and final phase of the transition from Blackboard to NYU Classes. Learn more about the progress of the NYU Classes project, and the new features coming soon.
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I have an extensive set of personal Tasks organized in GTD fashion that I want to migrate off of my corporate exchange account. Is there a good, free alternative out there? I was thinking I could add an account from another service into Outlook and simply drag/drop my GTD folder over there to copy it. The problem is I hanen't seen free services that support Outlook Tasks fully. For example, I can easily add my gmail account to Outlook but it doesn't support Task folders. Also, I often use Tasks as "containers" where I'll drag/drop an email message into one and it saves sort of like an attachment within the Task. It would be nice if the replacement service preserved this same Task capability.
There is an Outlook add-on for two-way synchronization of tasks with the Remember the Milk app.
Not sure how sophisticated are the features you're using with your tasks, but did you try using a "Hotmail/window live" account instead?


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At the LA Bike Summit, Los Angeles mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, called for a mandatory helmet law in California. On the surface a helmet law seems like a reasonable way to improve the safety of cycling – I'm sure I'm not the only cyclists that taught a helmet equals less chance of a massive head injury – but it's not as cut and dry.
Helmet laws have been on the books in Western Australia since 1992 and the data shows the benefits aren't that clear and that the biggest impact helmet laws have is to discourage cycling:
Injuries to cyclists follow a clear "safety in numbers" relation; injury rates per cyclist are lower when more people cycle. Data for cyclists in collisions with motor vehicles (see bmj.com) show helmet laws increased the risk of death or serious head injury relative to the risk for pedestrians and the amount of cycling. This implies helmet laws are counterproductive.
Collisions with motor vehicles cause nearly all deaths and debilitating head injuries among cyclists. A UK emergency department study found that such collisions caused 58% of head injuries to adult cyclists and 50% of all head injuries to cyclists. The large benefits from the road safety campaigns should be contrasted with the lack of obvious effect on head injuries from helmet laws. Yet helmet laws were far more expensive. All published cost-benefit analyses of injury rates before and after helmet laws show the cost of helmets exceeded any estimated savings in healthcare costs.
In addition to those who feel that helmet laws are counterproductive when attempting to improve the overall safety of cycling, some in the "anti-helmet" camp question the safety benefits of helmets. Earlier this month an Australian woman managed to have a fine she received for not wearing a helmet overturned based on the idea that, "she would be at greater risk of brain damage from 'diffuse external injury,' an injury similar to shaken baby syndrome, than if she fell on her bare head." Below is a video of Sue Abbott talking about her case:
The data on the effectiveness of helmet wearing I've reviewed is weak and often relies on the theory that people who wear helmets might feel safer and act more reckless. Obviously, there are certain types of accidents that will result in serious injury or death regardless of headwear, but, anecdotally, the few times I've crashed my bike I've been happy to have had a helmet on.
Should there be a mandatory helmet law? No. Should people choose to wear helmets? Probably.
Hat tip to @kelseyp for getting me thinking about this and sac cycle chic for linking the Sue Abbott story.


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WEIRTON - The City of Weirton's plans for an energy conservation audit couldn't have come at a better time for the water department, Utilities Director A.D. "Butch" Mastrantoni says.
Earlier this week Weirton City Council gave City Manager Valerie Means the go-ahead to negotiate a letter-of-intent for an energy audit, a process that will include the water and sanitary departments as well as the recreation department and library.
"We want to think outside the box," City Manager Valerie Means told the Water Board Thursday. "We need to look at anything that will help us with energy costs (including) meters and leak detection."
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AUDIT DISCUSSED — The Weirton Area Water Board met Thursday, during which time the city's plans for a new energy conservation audit were discussed. Water officials said the audit could assist with their continuing plans for upgrades to the city's water system. -- Linda Harris
Those items meters and leak detection are hugely important to departmental operations, Mastrantoni said.
"We can't account for every drop of water being produced," he said. "We're at 26 percent (unaccounted for), and we need to get back to 15 percent. This is a real opportunity to get that done with this project."
And water department personnel have been evaluating new metering systems, looking to find one that's reliable, cost-effective and labor efficient.
Mastrantoni said the energy service company (ESCO) doing the audit can look at their meter base and determine if changing them out could be done in such a way that the revenue gained through improved efficiency could be leveraged to cover the costs of the upgrade, rather than requiring water customers to pick up the tab.
Mastrantoni, who served on the committee that evaluated the four companies responding to the city's request for proposals, said the ESCO they ranked at the top of their list guarantees its work.
If the new energy systems the company recommends fail to reduce costs as expected, he said the company would make up the difference.
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The board also agreed to spend up to $8,500 to repair one of their two Lee Avenue pumps.
Chief Operator Chuck Tennaglio said the problem appears to be a mechanical seal, "and no one on staff has the expertise to make the repairs."
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Critics who wonder what difference this race for President makes, probably think we're about to be governed and ruled by President Obamney for four years. Is there any difference in the parties?
Here's one difference to think about. Barack Obama is in the battle of that other four-year tradition; winning a 2nd term to burnish his legacy and his place in history. Mitt Romney is vindicating the President race of his father, George Romney, in 1968; while charging into battle to win his first term as the 45th President of the United States.
They're spending upwards of $750 million on a job that pays $400,000 a year. But it's for the ultimate ego trip, the lure of the power they crave that will make this a 2% to 3% point race and a fight to the finish.
It's time again to make a suggestion that could curb all this madness. A single 6-year term as President. Six years? That's one term for a U.S. Senator. Guys like Orrin Hatch in Utah have served SIX, 6-year terms.. 36 years in the Chamber... and he is in the fight of his life to make it 7. That is far too long to serve.
The idea of a single 6-year Presidential term has been floated by William Jennings Bryan, the sage of Fairview, Nebraska who was a brilliant orator but not quite as good a politician -- and never made it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One guy who did, Jimmy Carter, had also resurrected the idea of a 6-year term during his 4-year term. It would have changed history. Richard Nixon would have left office anyway shortly after the time he resigned in disgrace after Watergate. Ronald Reagan would have departed with his head held high after what would surely have been a fizzled out controversy over Iran-Contra.
Bill Clinton would have already made the bed he had lain in, departing after his six-year term with much less of the political bloodbath from the lawsuits and impeachment fight over lying about his affairs. And while all that was happening, Osama bin Laden was planning the 9-11 attacks because he knew no one in Washington was paying any attention to him.
Even in the campaign 100 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt shot down the one time, 6-year term idea for the part platform because he thought it would be far too much time to put up with a dud, and it would not be enough time for high-minded reformers like himself who would need both their well-deserved 4-year terms. He could have run again as President in 1912 if he hadn't promised to leave and put his hand-picked choice, William Howard Taft, in there. Then he wanted back in again anyway.
It was his nephew, FDR, who politely thumbed his nose at two terms, saying he needed to continue running World War II. Agreed. He was in for two 6-years terms anyway, before Congress made 8 years tops the law of the land. rh