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Last summer, James Taylor packed the War Memorial with roughly 6,000 fans. He rolled through tunes like "Fire and Rain" and "Your Smiling Face" to the delight of the crowd.
This summer, Syracuse will once again have the chance to hear the music of James Taylor. This time, however, it will be performed by the Long Island-based band Copperline.
"What's interesting about it is James Taylor isn't touring this summer," said Willie Scoppettone, sax player for the band. "So if you want to hear James Taylor's music, this is it."
Scoppettone and Norman Vincent -- the "James Taylor" of Copperline -- stopped by the Post-Standard studio Tuesday on their way through town. Vincent performed "Fire and Rain" on his Taylor acoustic (fittingly).
The nine piece band plays the music of James Taylor, including all the hits people expect to hear, as well as what Vincent refers to as "some deep tracks."
The show takes place Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Landmark. Tickets are $23.50, $28.50 and $33.50, available via Ticketmaster, phone at 475-7980 or at the Landmark Box Office: 364 S. Salina St.

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On June 18, AlwaysAList.com reported the popular HLN anchor Richelle Carey had left the CNN sister channel.
On Thursday, Al Jazeera America announced that Carey was one the first four new anchors hired by the channel.
Carey will join other Al Jazeera America anchors Del Walters, Jonathan Betz and Morgan Fogarty to present live new throughout the day from the Al Jazeera America studio in New York City.
Carey is the only national anchor out of the four, with Walters having worked as an anchor at Washington, DC's ABC affiliate; Betz working as a field reporter and fill-in anchor at an ABC affiliate in Dallas; and Fogarty having been the main evening anchor at the CW affiliate in Charlotte.
Back in January, Al Jazeera coughed up a reported $500 million to buy Al Gore's little-watched Current TV and replace it with Al Jazeera America, which is scheduled to launch next month. Al Jazeera America is funded by the government of Qatar.


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Effect of R600a on tribological behaviour of sintered steel under starved lubrication
Sariibrahimoğlu, Kemal and Kizil, Huseyin and Akşit, Mahmut Faruk and Efeoğlu, İhsan (2008) Effect of R600a on tribological behaviour of sintered steel under starved lubrication. (Submitted)
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This study aims to develop and characterize wear resistant and low friction tribopairs that are compatible with new ozone-friendly Isobutane refrigerant to run at hermetic compressor bearings. The tribological behavior of 100Cr6 steel pin is investigated under starved lubrication condition in air and R600a environments when running against sintered steel with and without steam treatment. EDS and SEM are carried out on pin and plate samples after wear tests. The results indicate that durability distance is lower for the tests with R600a than those with air. The adverse effect of R600a on wear rate is linked to the change in the viscosity and foaming characteristics of the oil in the presence of R600a as well as the lack of oxides. Kemal Sariibrahimoglu1, Huseyin Kizil1*, Mahmut F. Aksit2, Ihsan Efeoglu3, and Husnu Kerpicci4
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Although the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) estimates there has been an increase in bed bugs in America over the last several years, the increase has had a minimal impact on the vast majority of hotels.
Bed bugs are brought into hotels by guests; it is not a hotel sanitation issue. Education, awareness, and vigilance are critical. A trained and knowledgeable housekeeping staff is one of the best lines of defense, along with having regular pest control inspections.
Typically, the bites produce redness, swelling, and itching. It is important to note bed bug bites do not transmit any human diseases.
Although not empowered to set standards for the lodging industry, the association offers additional resourceful tips, information, and products for hoteliers through its Educational Institute (EI), based in Orlando, Fla.
AH&LA members can find additional resources here.
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No suspense or mystery this week about Rutgers' starting quarterback.
Coach Greg Schiano announced at his weekly Monday press conference that true freshman Gary Nova, who earned his first college start against Pittsburgh last week, will continue as the starter when Navy visits High Point Solutions Stadium on Saturday.
That leaves sophomore Chas Dodd, who saw his streak of 12 straight starts end last week (he didn't play a down), as the back-up once again.
"Yeah, Gary is going to start," Schiano said. "That's after going through things, that's what we've decided to do. Again, Chas will be prepared and ready to go."
Nova, who was 24-0 as the starter at Don Bosco Prep, finished 11-of-24 for 174 yards with two touchdown passes and no interceptions in the Scarlet Knights' 34-10 victory over Pittsburgh. One of his TD passes — and more than one-third of his passing yards — came on a screen pass that fullback Joe Martinek took 60 yards for a score.
Also on the personnel front, sophomore Marcus Thompson was elevated to a starting defensive end spot on the depth chart following the season-ending knee injury suffered by Michael Larrow on the first play against Pittsburgh.
"Don't read too much into the defensive front stuff because I do it just so you guys have a two deep," Schiano said. "But we will, by the end of the week, figure out who has practiced best, who has looked the best and we'll rotate them in that way.
"I think we played 10 guys last week, maybe 11 (on the defensive line). We'll continue to play as many guys who have earned the right to play. Certainly playing a no‑huddle triple‑option offense, we'll have to play several defensive linemen, otherwise we'll run out of gas."
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SYRACUSE, NY -- Buy food, get gas? How about buy gas, get food? Read on...
From Nation's Restaurant News:
Giant Eagle Rolls Out Foodperks!
PITTSBURGH -- Giant Eagle here expanded its foodperks! -- reward savings on food through fuel pump sales at Get Go locations -- to shoppers in the Pittsburgh market this week.
The program runs concurrently with Giant Eagle's fuelperks! reward savings on fuel based upon shoppers' food purchases.
Foodperks! was launched in November in Columbus, Ohio. Besides Pittsburgh, it is available in Johnstown and Altoona, Pa., locations, as well as in West Virginia stores.
The chain plans to roll the program out to the remainder of Giant Eagle locations by the end of the year, according to a company official. With foodperks!, every 10 gallons of fuel pumped at GetGo locations with the Giant Eagle Advantage Card will earn customers a 1 percent discount off the price of a single trip's basket inside any Giant Eagle supermarket. The foodperks! rewards are cumulative and, just like fuelperks! rewards, are electronically tracked on the Giant Eagle Advantage Card to maximize customer convenience.
Of course, this is a supermarket chain, as you can see, that has its own gas stations, so everything stays in the family. Price Chopper's dealy-o with Sunoco -- buy food, save on gas -- isn't the same program and it isn't under the same-company umbrella.
On too...
* mrrochester comments, "The Tops store in Perinton, suburb of Rochester, has the self-scanning device. I don't know if all Tops have them, I grocery shop about four times a year, but I tried it and it was a pain in the butt. Some items wouldn't scan because the SKU was not in the system and then I had to bag it all myself. If I'm paying for something, I'd rather have someone else handle it for me. I don't even like the self-checkouts for this reason. Some things are best just left alone, technology doesn't improve everything, until we get robots that grocery shop for us."
Your a'preachin' to the choir...
* nedrow42 comments, "Does anyone know what happened to the Fuddrucker's locations on the Thruway? I know I ate at one in November on my way back from Buffalo but this week when I made the same drive I could not find one on either side. Have they pulled out? Are they gone for good?The rest of the food offerings on I-90 are so dull; I found them to be more than worth the wait. I thought they had one on each side of I-90 between Buffalo and Rochester but I did not see one anywhere between Syracuse and Buffalo this week on either side."
* *crunchocky comments, "Delaware North pulled one concept from each of their rest stops just after the first of the year. The Fuddruckers locations at Seneca (westbound just before Victor) and Pembroke (eastbound just after Buffalo) are in the process of being replaced by Checkers (a similar sounding restaurant with what I imagine may be a price point that more people can handle). The Fuddruckers at Clarence (west just before Buffalo) and the Villa Pizza at Scottsville (east just before Henrietta) have closed with no replacement named. In addition, the salad concept at Pembroke has closed as well with no replacement named."
Great question and awesome answer.
When Fuddy's was announced for the Thruway stops, I didn't get it. The concept doesn't seem to make sense in a Thruway plaza.
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One of the Best College Towns to Retire - Money November 2005: For the second time in four years, Las Cruces made one of Money's lists of best places to retire; this time as a college town. The article cited several factors, including Las Cruces' great weather, amazing views, cultural scene and low cost of living. Read storyOne of the Best Places to Retire - Money Magazine, June 2002: The article cited several factors, including Las Cruces' great weather, amazing views, cultural scene, low cost of living and the country's best Mexican food and, according to the article, possibly the hottest chile in the U.S.A. The article indicated Las Cruces' warm climate and mild winters were perfect for year-round activities such as tennis, hiking, golf and visiting attractions like the dunes of nearby White Sands National Monument.One of America's Top 100 Retirement Towns - Where to Retire Magazine, Fall 2001: Las Cruces received praise for its diverse culture, high desert climate, low cost of living, open spaces, and year-round outdoor activities. It was also one of the few towns selected that ranked below the national cost of living average, and had an average new home price under $100,000. Each city considered was assessed on a variety of categories ranging from the availability of medical care, recreational activities, continuing education, and airports, to shopping, dining, cultural and social organizations.Ranked in the Top 10 College Towns to Settle In by Modern Maturity Magazine (AARP publication).Ranked among the Top Five Places to Retire in the nation by Your Money Magazine.
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2012: A Chiefs Odyssey – Jason's #2
If this were a countdown of the most pivotal or most important individual games in the 2012 year, I'd say you've got that Buffalo game one spot too low. But, these are the most memorable games of 2012. Which leads me to this cop out….
#2: June boon
When the Chiefs opened play on June 18th, they were five games south of .500 at 32-37. The first-place Pawtucket Red Sox were in town to begin a four-game series. A week-and-a-half later, the Chiefs had won on how many straight occasions, Principal Ed Rooney?
Nine times, indeed, sir. Your Chiefs won nine straight games. Pawtucket, Gwinnett and Durham were the victims. And here are some of the curious things that happened over that time:
*In the first win, the Chiefs trailed 6-4 at the 7th-inning stretch. Then, Pawtucket committed two errors and the Chiefs scored five runs in the 7th. 11-7 final.
*In the third win, the Chiefs scored two runs in both the 8th and 9th innings to send the game into extras, where they scored in the 11th against former buddy and Zynga rival Garrett Mock. 6-5 final.
*In the fifth win, the Chiefs scored twice in the 7th and 8th against Gwinnett. 6-2 final.
*In the eighth win, the Chiefs and Braves scored at least one run in each of the first five half-innings. The score was 3-2 after one inning. 10-6 final.
*In the ninth win, the Chiefs and Bulls went to extras tied at 1. They ended the 11th tied at 2. Final score 3-2 in 12.
The odds of all of those things happening in one nine-game stretch are like the odds of a meteorite hitting Russia.


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The full trailer for the New Orleans-shot sequel "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" has arrived, and it does just what a good trailer should do. It offers a tantalizing peek at what's in store in director Matt Reeves' film, but while making it clear that Reeves and company are not content simply aping the venerable franchise's surprise-hit 2011 reboot.
This newer installment is set 10 years after the events in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," and it's been an eventful decade, indeed. Caesar the warrior-chimp talks English now -- and in full sentences, no less. Human civilization, on the other hand, is on a definite downswing, as evidenced by the scenes of urban decay that the production shot memorably in the middle of New Orleans' bustling CBD. (They are some of the first images in the trailer; you'll know them when you see them.)
Motion-capture guru Andy Serkis once more stars as Caesar, joined by a human cast that includes Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and Kodi Smit-McPhee -- and who forge a very tentative truce with their ape overlords.
The new "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" trailer gets the nod as today's Movie Trailer of the Day. Check it out in the embedded video above. Below, find the studio boilerplate -- and, below that, a gallery of stills from Reeves' film.
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" is set for nationwide release through Twentieth Century Fox on July 11, 2014.
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.


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The feline equivalent to HIV surged last year along with Lyme disease in dogs, according to a report released Tuesday.
Banfield Pet Hospital said in its annual report that in 2013 its veterinarians treated 48 percent more cases of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus than the year before. The prevalence of Lyme disease in dogs rose 21 percent in 2013.
The report is based on data from nearly 2.3 million dogs and 470,000 cats that were treated by Banfield vets. One in 300 felines was infected with FIV last year, the report said, with the highest prevalence of cases in Oklahoma, Iowa and Arkansas. The virus, which weakens a cat's immune system, does not infect humans, but makes felines more susceptible to infections.
Nationwide, Banfield pets treated one in every 130 dogs for Lyme disease, with the highest percentage of cases in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In comparison, the disease was relatively rare in the Northwest, the report said, with one of 1,000 canines infected.
Lyme disease is caused by a type of bacteria that is spread through the bite of an infected deer tick. Dogs cannot infect humans but they can carry ticks into the house which in turn can bite and infect people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. As with dogs, the prevalence is highest in the northeast of the United States.
Owners can protect their dogs from Lyme disease by checking them for ticks and using flea and tick collars or topical products. To protect cats against FIV, keep them indoors, the report advises.
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A full menu of sports to go along with those Memorial Day barbecues awaits the Central New York sports fan this weekend.
Four area lacrosse teams are trying to win national titles and the Syracuse Crunch begin their Eastern Conference Finals series with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at the War Memorial.
I want to see what you have to say about these games. Your chance to chime in is below.
But first, to borrow a phrase from ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike in the Morning," here are some predictions sure to go wrong from me.
Syracuse Women's Lacrosse vs Maryland. Friday 7:30 p.m.
21-0 Maryland takes on 18-3 Syracuse, which is riding a 13-game winning streak. Maryland came into the Carrier Dome in February and beat the Orange 19-11 behind Katie Schwarzmann's seven goals.
It will take a near-perfect game for Syracuse to beat the Terps, who are trying to win their 11th national title. The Terrapins won five games by 10 goals or more this season, averaging 15 goals per game and have Tewaaraton Award finalists in Alex Aust and Katie Schwarzmann.
Syracuse has a dynamic duo of their own in Alyssa Murray and Kayla Treanor. Murray has amassed 103 points this season on 63 goals and a team-high 40 assists. Treanor leads the team in goals with 67 and ranks second in points with 89. Both are the highest single-season totals for a freshman in school history.
Syracuse's Michelle Tumolo is trying to give the team a lift by playing on a torn ACL.
It should be a fun game to watch, but I think the Terps will just be too much for Gary Gait's squad.
Maryland 18
Syracuse 13
Cornell vs Duke. Saturday 2:30 p.m.
Cornell is steamrolling into the Final Four off a 16-6 win over Ohio State while Duke barely got by Notre Dame last week by a score of 12-11.
The Big Red have the best duo in college lacrosse right now in Rob Pannell and Steve Mock. I don't know how Duke is going to keep both guys contained. Duke coach John Danowski is going to have to get real creative here.
I think the Blue Devils are going to have to grit their way to a win if they have a shot. The battle at the face off X between Cornell's Doug Tesoriero and Duke's Brendan Fowler will be a ton of fun to watch and will be a huge factor as well.
But give me the Big Red. Pannell and company plus that hard-nosed (trademark: Scott Shafer) defense of Cornell will be too much for the Blue Devils.
Cornell 13
Duke 10
Syracuse vs Denver. Saturday 5:00 p.m.
There is a shortage of finger nails amongst the fan bases of Denver and Syracuse as both are coming off tight games last week.
Denver trailed by a score of 9-4 at halftime to North Carolina but scrapped their way to a 12-11 win over the Tarheels with Eric Law scoring the winning goal with 13 seconds to play.
Syracuse shot out to a 4-0 lead over Yale, then didn't score for 43 minutes as the Bulldogs took the lead, before the Orange scored three goals in the last three minutes to win a thriller 7-6.
It was a common theme for both teams. Syracuse has played in nine one-goal games this season. Denver is 14-4. Their four losses were by a combined six goals.
Denver is going to put up a stiff challenge to Syracuse. The Pioneers are well-coached by Bill Tierney, have a disciplined midfield, a good faceoff guy in Chris Carraro, and a defense that can lock down an opponent. Just look at what they did to North Carolina in the second half last week.
Syracuse has used a well-balanced attack to get where they are, so the theory is they shouldn't divert from that.
That said, I think Syracuse has got to stop playing games by the hair on their chinny chin chin. Someone needs to take command and that someone is JoJo Marasco. Marasco took charge in the final minutes vs Yale. It was the main reason Syracuse snapped out of their funk in that game and punched their ticket to Philly.
I also can't wait to see the chess match between Desko and Tierney. Desko has gotten the best of Tierney in NCAA Tournament play so far as he is 4-1 against the Pioneers coach.
The X factor is this game as well is Steve Ianzito. He may play, but how he plays on that bum ankle will be a close thing to watch.
Expect a deliberate, patient, slow-down type of game. I wouldn't be surprised if both teams were in the single digits.
Syracuse 9
Denver 7
Syracuse Crunch vs Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Saturday 7:00 p.m.
The Penguins made history by becoming just the third team in AHL history to crawl out of an 0-3 hole and win a 7-game series.
That's impressive.
I hope they soaked in the moment, because this is as far as their playoff run is going to go.
This series does match a classic offensive vs defensive mentality.
Per Lindsay Kramer of the Post-Standard:
"The Penguins permitted the fewest goals per game in the league this season, 2.34. The Penguins have grown even stingier in the postseason, allowing just 2.20.
The Crunch scored at a better clip than any team in the AHL this season, at an average of 3.25 goals per game. Syracuse sits atop that category in the postseason, finding twine 4.29 times a game."
That said, the Pens "thron-in-the-side" approach isn't going to work against the "All In" Crunch.
Syracuse just has too much firepower. That top line in particular of Palat-Johnson-Panik is one of the best in the AHL in recent memory. The Pens don't have enough to stop them in a seven-game series.
That said, Syracuse won't sweep this team. The familiarity factor and the Pens grinding style should get them a win in this series. They also will bring a lot of fans to the War Memorial and will have a true home-ice advantage when the series shifts to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
If the Pens are going to have a shot, they better jump on Syracuse early, as the Crunch have been out of game action for a week after sweeping Springfield.
I actually think that will work to their advantage versus the Pens who are coming off a grueling series with Providence.
Crunch in five
LeMoyne vs Mercyhurst. Sunday 1:00 p.m.
OK, full disclosure. I haven't seen much a either team this season, but I didn't want to leave a CNY lax team chasing a title this weekend out of the story.
LeMoyne has won nine straight heading into the title game with top-ranked Mercyhurst. They have four All-Americans, including Auburn native Andrew Chadderdon, who scored five goals versus Adelphi last week. He's recorded multiple points in 14 games, including four games with at least four points.
The Dolphins are going to need Chadderdon, and seniors Tyler Prevost (58 points) and Nate Frechette (56 points) to have another big game as Mercyhurst brings a stingy defense into this game. The Lakers held 16 of its 18 opponents under their season scoring average and have the back-to-back (USILA) outstanding defensive player of the year in Andrew Wagner.
I think Dan Sheehan's Dolphins find a way to bring home the first Dolphins national title since 2007 back to Central New York.
LeMoyne 10
Mercyhurst 8
*Cornell vs Syracuse. Monday 1:00 p.m. (projected)
A rematch of the 2009 national title game, the last time Syracuse won the national title. A game which earned all-time classic status.
Just watch this video and enjoy the 1,000 chills that will go up your spine while you do.
I don't know if we will get another classic, but will history repeat itself in terms of Syracuse winning?
Unfortunately not, Orange fans.
Remember that "playing with fire" thing I mentioned above? Well, if you play with fire, sometimes you get burned. Here is a case where Syracuse gets burned.
Syracuse beat Cornell 13-12 earlier this season in one of those nine one-goal games Syracuse played in. SU overcame an early 4-0 Cornell lead to come back and win.
Rob Pannell started out hot in that game, factoring in four of Cornell's first five goals, but was shut out the rest of the way when Syracuse switched to a zone and Brian Megill shut him down.
Syracuse won't get that luxury again. Ben DeLuca will not be fooled twice and will have a better game plan for Syracuse.
I think the Big Red win an up-and-down game and their discipline and star power of Pannell and Steve Mock sink Syracuse.
Cornell 16
Syracuse 13
>>Let's hear from you guys. Drop below in the comments section, hit me on Twitter, or drop me an email and tell us which CNY teams will lose, who will win, and how it will go down this weekend.
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Happy Birthday – Tim Lincecum
June 15th is Tim Lincecum's birthday! Here are some Giants Gems about Tim from the 2012 Giants Media Guide – Happy Birthday Tim!
- Tim's delivery is the creation of his father, Chris, who emphasized three fundamentals: 1) "tilt" – the turn of Tim's shoulders toward the third base dugout, forcing him to pick up the target out of the corner of his left eye; 2) "dangle" – the downward thrust of his right arm as he turns toward home plate; and 3) "reach" – the violent forward propulsion that creates a stride that exceeds his height.
- The normal stride length for a pitcher is 77% to 87% of his height. Tim's stride is 129%, or roughly 7 1⁄2 feet.
- Was given the nickname "The Franchise" by former Giants reliever Steve Kline.
- He is something of a human jukebox. He knows the lyrics to hundreds of songs, from Frank Sinatra to the Beatles to rap, country and techno. He once performed My Prerogative by Bobby Brown for a local Washington radio station when he was in college.
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His Birthday is June 15, you might want to fix that!
So do the fans!! Just watching out for the Giants!!
Although the outcome wasn't exactly the one we wanted, I was soooooo delighted I got to see Tim pitch this last Sunday!! I won tickets in January to a Giants game back in Januray and had to pick a game when there was no way of being sure of any pitching order. I flew out from Arizona figuring I'd see a great pitcher any way it rolled of course but this guy and his huge stride has a special place in my heart. Happy Birthday Tim!
A very Happy Birthday to Tim Lincecum. It is wonderful for him to be back home in Seattle for his birthday. I was at the 9/9/11 game (I think that was the day) where Tim pitched vs. Clayton Kershaw.I was up in view deck & could really see just how wicked and awesome his pitches are. Go Timmy Go. GO GIANTS.
ps. I wear orange & black every day they play!
Happy Birthday Timmy!!! Your birthday gift should be a big "W" Hope you have a Great Day!!
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Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday! Have a fabulous day and we look forward to seeing you on the mound. Happy days are ahead for you!
Happy birthday! You share your birthday with a wonderful man (my husband Bill).
Hi Tim i wish u a happy birthday you are a pitcher worth of watching .all the best bro .greetings from Saudi Arabia
Happy Birthday!!! Love watching you pitch!!
Happy birthday! I love watching you pitch. You've renewed my love for the game.
Happy Birthday from your fan in the Philippines!!!
Happy Birthday Timmy! Kisses from Venezuela😉
Happiest of birthdays to the freak who INSTANTLY turned me into a SF Giants fan. I saw him stretch out in a pitch—like a giraffe made of rubberbands. This was in June of 2010, and I'd quit following baseball in the Nineties.
Timmy brought me on board, and I am forever grateful that "this kid" caught my eye. Now I love the whole ballclub, our coaches, and our announcers. THIS is the magic of baseball.
Thanks, Timmy! We❤ you ALL here in Santa Cruz
Happy Birthday to a fantastic young man who shares a birthday with my son!❤
Happy Birthday Timmy!!!! We love you!!!! Can't wait to see you take the mound tomorrow- it will be amazing!!!
Enjoy your birthday. Good luck the rest of the season. Hope you get a a win streak goin.
Happy Birthday Tim. Hope it is a great one. Cheers
Have a very Happy Birthday! Just don't party too much, we're on our way from Woodburn to see you pitch tomorrow!
Happy Birthday, Tim!! I am a big fan and share a birthday with you…It was a spectacular day here in Connecticut. Will be in San Francisco in August, but you will be out orf town, unfortunately…
Happy Birthday, Timmy…. here's wishing your the best b-day present and the mariners a sad sack loss…. Go get 'em. You've got what it takes. Believe in yourself as much as we believe in you.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! :o) You rock!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM! Wishing you the best Birthday ever. Have some crazy fun and do something totally different from other birthday's. Have a super great weekend. You will SHINE tomorrow. Best wishes, Tina (San Jose)
Happy Birthday Tim. Looking forward to the next happy Lincecum day, go get 'em!
A very best Happy 28 years to you. Love you Tim!
Happy Birthday……to one of the best pitchers in the league!
Happy Birthday to my favorite pitcher! Hope you have a wonderful day and lucky to be home on your birthday!🙂 good luck in all you do
Timmy we want you to have the happiest birthday you have ever had. Your great on the mound and we have watched you get better each year and looking forward to watching you pitch again. We miss you when you are not there. Good luck in the future and each time you pitch remember our hearts and love are with you. God Bless You and Your Family
Happy Birthday Tim; nice to know I share my birthday with such an awesome pitcher for my San Francisco Giants!
Best wishes, fella🙂
Happy Bierhday to you i hope you win all the games vs the Mariners !!!


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The Final Jane Austen Rewrite, and Other News
September 1, 2016 | by Jonathon Sturgeon
- It may surprise you that literary history could frown upon Seth Grahame-Smith, the "mash-up novelist" famous for his Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith is now being sued by Hachette, his publisher, for breach of contract. Alison Flood explains the case at the Guardian: "The complaint says the Grahame-Smith delivered the second manuscript in June 2016, but alleges that the work was 'not original to Smith, but instead is in large part an appropriation of a 120-year-old public-domain work,' that it 'materially varies from the 80,000–100,000 word limit' agreed on, and that it 'is not comparable in style and quality to Smith's wholly original best seller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.' " Maybe this will put an end to Jane Austen rewrites not penned by Whit Stillman.
Five Hours of Happy Hour, and Other News
August 25, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Early in the fourteenth century, an Egyptian bureaucrat embarked on the kind of project that many of us attempt on nights off: an enormous encyclopedia designed to contain all knowledge in the Muslim world. The book, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, ran to nine thousand pages, and a part of it will see English translation, after so many centuries, this fall. It illustrates "the sprawlingly heterodox reality of the early centuries of Islam, so different from the crude puritanical myths purveyed by modern-day jihadis," Robert F. Worth writes. "Reading it is like stumbling into a cavernous attic full of unimaginably strange artifacts, some of them unforgettable, some merely dross. From the alleged self-fellation of monkeys to the many lovely Bedouin words for the night sky ('the Encrusted, because of its abundance of stars, and the Forehead, because of its smoothness') to the court rituals of Egypt's then-overlords, the Mamluks, nothing seems to escape Nuwayri's taxonomic ambitions." (We'll have excerpts on the Daily after Labor Day.)
Airship: Photos from Guyana
June 24, 2016 | by Lena Herzog and Graham Dorrington
"Airship," by Lena Herzog and Graham Dorrington, appeared in our Spring 2008 issue. Read More »
A Fun Time at the Frost Fair, and Other News
January 8, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Over the course of the "Little Ice Age" that befell Europe some centuries back, the River Thames froze twenty-three times—such an unlikely occurrence that people had no choice but to party on the ice. These "frost fairs" often lasted for days; people set up tents and printers commemorated the occasion by selling letterpressed sheets of souvenir paper. "The men who dragged their presses onto the ice and produced these keepsakes were a competitive lot, each trying to offer the most enticing product … Promiscuity and sexual license were constitutive elements of the frost fair … Some of the tents set up on the ice were brothels."
- Five booksellers and publishers have gone missing in Hong Kong, and their disappearance may be linked to a contentious manuscript about China's president. "The book's title was being debated by the publisher before the abductions … The two choices were: The Lovers of Xi Jinping or Xi Jinping and His Six Women … It is unclear whether the book alleges Xi had an extramarital affair. As part of his crackdown on corruption since he took office in 2012, Xi has led an anti-corruption campaign that made adultery grounds for banishment from the Communist Party."
- Cognitive behavioral therapy long ago overtook psychoanalysis as the dominant form of therapy—and it had results to back up this dominance. In more recent studies, though, the talking cure has proven increasingly effective. Is it time to bring Freud back into the fold? "In contrast to the meandering conversations of psychoanalysis, a typical CBT exercise might involve filling out a flowchart to identify the self-critical 'automatic thoughts' that occur whenever you face a setback … Yet rumblings of dissent from the vanquished psychoanalytic old guard have never quite gone away. At their core is a fundamental disagreement about human nature—about why we suffer, and how, if ever, we can hope to find peace of mind … CBT doesn't exactly claim that happiness is easy, but it does imply that it's relatively simple: your distress is caused by your irrational beliefs, and it's within your power to seize hold of those beliefs and change them. Psychoanalysts contend that things are much more complicated. For one thing, psychological pain needs first not to be eliminated, but understood. From this perspective, depression is less like a tumor and more like a stabbing pain in your abdomen: it's telling you something, and you need to find out what."
- Many of us enjoy a good walk. I myself embarked on a walk this very morning, and plan to walk more throughout the day. But I'll probably never walk as much, or as far, as Werner Herzog, whose book Of Walking in Ice tells of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris in 1974. "'Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence,' Herzog told a Film Comment interviewer in 1979, a year after Of Walking in Ice was first published in Germany. 'We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It's an existential quality that we are losing. It's almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.' Over the course of many years, and in countless different interviews, Herzog has spoken of his filmmaking—and of walking—in vaguely spiritual, even divine terms ('It's like a grace, like a gift of God that has fallen into my lap')."
- In which Ben Lerner pays a visit to the new Whitney's conservation department: "For many modern and contemporary artists, ephemerality is part of the point. Dieter Roth, to take just one example, didn't cover his canvases with yogurt for the sake of durability; they were built to biodegrade. Picasso and Braque told friends that they would rather let their canvases deteriorate than have them varnished … In the absence of explicit and complete instructions—that is, most of the time—conservation is fundamentally an interpretive act … The work of a conservator can re-sacralize the original art object … Conservation can help produce—not just protect—the aura of the original."
Staff Picks: Robot Maids, Airships, Geocities
August 21, 2015 | by The Paris Review
Many of the past's technological prophesies seem so quaint today—nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners, urban transportation via zeppelins, clean car emissions, robot maids—and sometimes I'm not sure there's intelligent life on this planet, much less another one. But I'm heartened by the new book Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travels, and Postwar Art of the Americas. It served as the catalogue to a show at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art earlier this year, and part of its aim is corrective: though the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in the space race, they didn't have a monopoly on exploring imagined worlds and ideas. Artists and writers in Latin America in the 1960s and seventies were also giving thought to what might be. Mexican David Alfaro Siqueiros imagined the cosmic landscape in paintings like Earth as seen from the stratosphere. Argentineans Ana Kamien and Marilú Marini choreographed a dance spectacle called Marvila the marvelous woman vs. Astra the super sneak from Planet Ultra and her destructive monster. One of my favorites is Paraguayan Carlos Colombino's Cosmonaut, made from oil on carved wood, in which a spaceman's face looks like it's being sucked out, tentacle-like, from his helmet. It's at once elegant and frightening, old and new—like the future itself. —Nicole Rudick
There's an unexpected coup thirty minutes into Werner Herzog's The White Diamond. The protagonist—Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer who's brought his latest airship to Guyana for its inaugural launch—is suddenly and irrevocably overshadowed by Mark Anthony Yhap, a local who's been hired to help with the project. You can sense it coming. Dorrington's enthusiastic affect, while endearing, has begun to spoil, and into the film's growing protagonistic void steps a new—and more true—Herzogian hero. Gazing up at the airship and reclining in a clear-plastic inflatable armchair, Yhap delivers a Dude-esque monologue that completely refocuses the film. And, improbably, his appeal only grows from there: subsequent scenes depict his love for his red rooster and his habit of looking out at Kaieteur Falls through a single droplet of water. (Here, again, he delivers another of his unforgettable lines.) The film might not be Herzog's greatest work, but Yhap alone makes it worth watching. —Stephen Hiltner
The Internet, as it matured, was bound to long for its low-tech past. For those who grew up on dial-up, it's been fascinating to watch the growing nostalgia for the Web of the nineties; what began as a couple of wistful listicles has exploded into an art form, one that critiques the branded monotony of social media by remembering the alarums and excursions of simpler times. Last year, Paul Ford's tilde.club invited users to unshackle themselves from the tedium of Facebook by building simple, custom-programmed homepages that recalled the unpretentious spirit of early university Web sites; Windows 93 emulated the unstable, rough-edged aesthetic of Microsoft at its peak; and now comes Cameron's World, a sprawling digital collage that comprises more than seven hundred gifs and graphics rescued from the defunct Yahoo! GeoCities community, which was, in its way, the original social network. Though it's easy to dismiss as a mere novelty, the collage, designed by the artist Cameron Askin, is a meticulous and weirdly affecting memento: it hearkens back to "a time when a website really was a 'site,' " as Askin told Hyperallergic. "A homepage was thought of as a second 'home.' There's more of a spatial sense to the online world." Compare that to today, when controlled environments like Facebook "iron out many of the wilder intricacies of personal taste that used to define self-expression on personal homepages." —Dan Piepenbring
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Staff Picks: Lumber Yards, Low-crawling, Luxury Cages
February 20, 2015 | by The Paris Review
Not long ago a friend gave me a very slim book by the French sinologist Jean François Billeter called Trois essais sur la traduction. Like the (similarly skinny) 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, by Eliot Weinberg and Octavio Paz, this is a book all about specifics—the specific problems of translating classical Chinese poetry. And like that book, this one contains an entire philosophy of translation. "The young musician learns to analyse the form of the work, and by interpreting the work he brings it to life: he makes it his own twice over. In literature, the student learns mainly how to talk about works. He does not make them his own the way the musician does … The result is a frustration that no one admits but that pretty much everyone feels. Students of literature can acquire at least some of [a writer's] power through the practice of translation, since it consists in saying in one language what the author has said in another—saying it as well as he did, so that it produces the same effect." I hope someone will bring that power to bear on these graceful, deeply sensible case studies. —Lorin Stein
Of the New York Times Magazine's quartet of covers coming with its relaunch this weekend, my favorite is Sara Cwynar's Death Star globe cloaked in a distorted TV test pattern that practically emits a high-frequency reference tone. It turns out that Gary Shteyngart's essay for the issue—a chronicle of watching Russian TV for a week straight—pairs quite well with Cwynar's evil-empire cover; he must still have the drone of Putin's television clouding his brain. (Shteyngart's exploit reminds me of Caity Weaver's challenge last year of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers promotion, during which she ate mozzarella sticks for close to fourteen hours.) Shteyngart performed his feat Black Mirror style: in front of three large television screens installed in a "luxury cage" at the Four Seasons in New York. From the variety of programs—talk shows, news, classic films, comedy, and lots and lots of dancing—preposterously braided together by state propaganda, Shteyngart plucks hard truths (or, in Putin parlance, "manly truths") about Russia's increasing distance from any kind of geopolitical middle ground. "Now the cool nations are no longer inviting Russia for unsupervised sleepovers," he writes, "and the only kids still leaving notes on Russia's locker are Kim Jong-un and Raúl Castro." —Nicole Rudick
Zadie Smith wrote a piece for Rookie this week detailing her antipathy toward keeping a diary: "The dishonesty of diary writing—this voice you put on for supposedly no one but yourself—I found that idea so depressing … I don't want any record of my days." That's an intriguing sentiment to me—I've been caught up in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, a five-hundred-page kaleidoscope of the New York School artist's writings and drawings, diary entries included. Smith, miffed by the staged grandeur that crept into the pages of her own diary, renounces the practice. But Brainard renounces the grandeur. In Collected Writings, there's no asphyxiating sense of malaise or swooping trauma, no insurmountable woe, no quixotic dreams of romance—which is precisely what's drawn me to the collection. Instead, one gets what one might expect from a diary: the quotidian. We learn what Brainard liked in bed (a "good plain blow-job; It's rhythm that makes me come the best"), what he thought about on the train ("I like that lumber yard"), his impression of Jamaica ("It's a hard place to believe in"). As Dan Chaisson puts it, "[Brainard's] writing specializes in the exploration of the minor emotions often slighted by 'serious' writers: contentment rather than elation, glumness rather than despair, horniness instead of passion, and, everywhere, a non-existential, completely ordinary loneliness." —Caitlin Youngquist
In his new memoir My Life as a Foreign Country, the poet Brian Turner traces his history as a young infantryman in Bosnia and Iraq, interlacing his story with those of his grandfather (who served in World War II), his father (Cold War), and his uncle (Vietnam), to find some element of truth behind the history of human suffering. Turner writes tenderly from his enemies' perspective, imagining them asleep with their wives, being blown up while building IEDs meant for American soldiers, and even training their crosshairs on one Sgt Turner himself. Neither didactic nor bombastic, My Life as a Foreign Country focuses on the place of the individual in war. It doesn't hurt that Turner is from my hometown of Fresno, California. "I was prepared to low-crawl," he writes, "with my facedown in the nastiest, foulest, brackish sludge and sewer the world could offer, that I was from Fresno and people from Fresno can take it, can take it in spades and shovel fulls, people from Fresno can take decades of it, that people from Fresno can outcrawl any motherfucker on the planet … That's why I joined." —Jeffery Gleaves
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International Graduate Programs
Memorial University offers a number of unique opportunities for international graduate students to study and learn in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Memorial's School of Graduate Studies (SGS) is home to almost 3,400 graduate students enrolled in over 100 graduate diploma, and master's and doctoral degree programs.
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Visiting research students: Visiting research students are graduate students at other recognized institutions who come to Memorial University to conduct research under the supervision of a Memorial faculty member. For more information, please visit the School of Graduate Studies website, where you can learn about the application process, registration, and fees.
Sponsored graduate students: Sponsored graduate students normally receive funding from a government, university, or company to pursue a graduate degree overseas. If you are a sponsored student, please contact the School of Graduate Studies via the online form.
Students in joint graduate programs: Memorial University is pleased to provide an opportunity to exceptional students to pursue double doctoral degree programs. Through such an agreement, a doctoral student will carry out a joint research project at Memorial University and another recognized institution and earn doctoral degrees from both institutions. Memorial also offers the opportunity to create joint undergraduate and graduate programming with partner institutions. For more information please contact the School of Graduate Studies.
Students funded through partner agencies: Memorial University has reached agreements with the following agencies and organizations. International students from these regions or affiliated with these institutions who are interested in applying for Memorial University's master's or doctoral programs are asked to contact the appropriate officer in their home country or the School of Graduate Studies.
Vietnam: The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) sponsors a project to train scientific and technical staff overseas with the state budget through the Vietnam International Education Development program. This program offers a range of scholarships to prospective Vietnamese students studying undergraduate and postgraduate and research courses at Canadian universities and elsewhere. For further information regarding scholarships please visit Vietnam International Education DevelopmentMinistry of Education and Training websites.
Saudi Arabia: The Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in Canada was established in 1978 in the City of Ottawa, the Capital of Canada, to meet the educational needs of Saudi students wishing to pursue their higher education in Canadian Universities and Technical Colleges. The Cultural Bureau also serves to act as a liaison between Saudi Arabia and Canada in the promotion of cultural and educational relations and the establishment of cooperation between Saudi institutions of higher learning and their counterparts in Canada. Learn more about the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship on the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in Canada website.
Brazil: Science without Borders is a large scale nationwide scholarship program primarily funded by the Brazilian federal government. The program seeks to strengthen and expand the initiatives of science and technology, innovation and competitiveness through international mobility of undergraduate and graduate students and researchers. To learn more about participating in this program, visit the Science without Borders website.
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ROSLIN - A group of residents in this small rural community don't want aerial herbicide spraying done here and they're willing to occupy the potential spray zone around the clock to make sure they have their way.
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ROSLIN - A group of residents in this small rural community don't want aerial herbicide spraying done here and they're willing to occupy the potential spray zone around the clock to make sure they have their way.
The group of around a dozen Roslin residents started protesting at the potential spray site on Monday afternoon in an effort to stop the North Nova Forest Owners Co-op from spraying the herbicide Vision near their property. The spray was supposed to take place today, but the protesters were informed yesterday that it's going to be rescheduled.
They're willing to wait out the meantime.
"If we wait long enough, after the leaves change, apparently (the spray) is not effective. So if we can get in 'til fall…" said concerned citizen Holly Gordon yesterday at the site. "I would hope they wouldn't dump chemicals down on us. You're not supposed to ingest them, you're not supposed to inhale them. I don't want to wear it either."
The group is following the lead of similar groups in Pictou and Colchester counties that were successful in stopping aerial spraying recently.
While the Pest Management Regulatory Agency insists Vision is safe, many studies suggest quite the opposite.
Rick Cheeseman, a local organic farmer, said according to research he's seen, 59 per cent of the Vision formula is made up of "inert" ingredients. When herbicide companies release their research results, they name the long-term affects of the active ingredient, but only name the short-term affects of the whole formula.
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GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A new county Equalization report details gains and losses in state equalized value for cities and townships and highlights some of the biggest investments in the county during 2013.
Some of the investments made headlines, while others occurred with little fanfare.
At the top of the county's report for major investments was more than $11.7 million in personal property investment in Magna Electronics & E Car Systems
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In all, there was very little change in the SEV for all commercial property in the county, down from $1.846 billion in 2013 to $1.845 billion in 2014.
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VESTAVIA HILLS, Alabama -- Shades Mountain Baptist Church has turned its former sanctuary, used from 1963 to 1989, into a Centennial Center this week in homage of 100 years of history.
The ever-expanding megachurch campus, where 2,600 worshippers gather every Sunday morning in the much newer sanctuary, has gone into throwback mode for this weekend's 100th anniversary.
There's a 1931 Ford Model A in the lobby, loaned by members Ernest and Edna Earle McCarty. There's a wedding dress from 1914 and a U.S. Marines uniform loaned by World War II veteran Col. Carl Cooper, 91, who still comes by the church every week to help fold Sunday bulletins.
The balcony features a display of costumes from the church's Christmas pageants past.
Other exhibits include decades-old bulletins, hymnbooks, accounts of worldwide mission efforts and photographs of most eras of church history. The collection has been two years in the making.
"We put out some pleas to the members, if they had any memorabilia, to bring it by, and we set up an archive room," said the Rev. Danny Wood, who joined the staff as pastor in 1997 and succeeded the Rev. Charles T. Carter in 1998 after a transition period. "It helped us learn more of the history of the church."
As a modern touch on the exhibits, there are smart phone digital codes on displays that take visitors to connected information online.
A video of reminiscences by Wood and Carter plays on a loop on a TV as part of the exhibit.
Wood and Carter have also been walking through the exhibit in person a lot this week as it was being set up.
"I'm just 25 years younger than this church," said Carter, 75, who was senior minister at Shades Mountain Baptist for 26 years from 1971 through 1998. He is retired but has continued to preach on Sundays, filling in at pulpits across the state.
"I'm still preaching, which is what I love to do," Carter said.
Wood has pleasant memories as a member of the congregation long before he became pastor.
"I was a member here in the 1970s and early 1980s," Wood said. "It was great to look back and see those memories, the people and events that shaped my life."
Wood recalls his wedding to his wife, Janice, in the former sanctuary where the Centennial Center has been set up.
Carter officiated the service, told him to kiss the bride, then instructed him on when to stop. "That's enough, Wood," he recalled Carter telling him. A picture from the wedding is part of an exhibit on love.
Carter and Wood have pastored the church for 40 of its 100 years.
"The people are the things that make the church," said Mavis Gates, who retired in 2003 after serving as administrative assistant to both Carter and Wood. "It is an amazing fellowship of believers."
The Centennial Center will be open for public viewing before and after the 9:30 a.m. Celebration service Sunday, and Sept. 19, 20, and 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sept. 21 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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LANSING, MI -- If online commenters are any indicator, there is a growing wave of support for decriminalizing or even legalizing marijuana.
Readers responded strongly to an opinion column posted over the weekend as well as an online database that shows county-by-county data on marijuana related arrests in 2012. (The database can be accessed at the bottom of this post.)
Decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana is a hot topic nationwide. Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington state, and Michigan cities including Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Ypsilanti, Jackson and Ferndale has decriminalized marijuana in the past two years.
A majority of the commenters offered their support for decriminalizing or legalizing the drug.
Wrote a commenter with the handle Free Gun Locks for Sale: "Wasted days and wasted nights. When will the American bigots realize this drug is a cash cow for the police. How aboot a follow up story on how much marijuana was confiscated and how all the arrested possessions were confiscated."
"'Is enforcing marijuana laws a good use of public resources?' No," posted mrkersey.
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Joey82 described himself as "a lifelong conservative," but said: "You cannot have invalid laws in a just society. You cannot make a medical/nontoxic/nonaddictive herb illegal while allowing people to drink alcohol, smoke cigs, eat fast food, pop over the counter pills, or consume any of the hundreds of other legal substances that are far more harmful than marijuana. That makes a mockery out of justice."
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According to a definition used by the U.S. Defense Acquisition University, lean manufacturing refers to an evolving
process of production covering the total enterprise, embracing all aspects of industrial operations
and including customer-supplier networks, which is governed by a systemic set of principles, methods and practices. Just as it is with more traditional approaches to manufacturing, automation is frequently a component of lean manufacturing. Key lean principles include getting it right the first time, waste minimization, continuous improvement and flexibility. And, both lean manufacturing and automation share a focus on accomplishing more with less.
Unfortunately, few organizations recognize the potential role fastener selection can play in helping achieve lean manufacturing and automation goals.
Joe Greenslade, director of engineering technology at the Industrial Fastener Institute and a 38-year veteran of the fastener industry, says companies often make mistakes when trying to optimize operations and improve efficiency by failing to consider the role of the fastener. The fastener industry is continually coming up with innovations that simplify the manufacturing process. Manufacturers are always trying to squeeze costs but often fail to look at alternative fastening methods for solutions.
Companies often put extensive efforts into designing components and subcomponents and only then, at the end of the process, do they select the fasteners. But that can be short-sighted because the optimum fastener can make an assembly operation much faster and raise quality, too. If you are really trying to achieve optimum efficiency in assembly and manufacturing, Greenslade suggests putting time into thoroughly researching fastening options and talking to potential suppliers. OEMS should call in the very best fastener producers to review their designs ahead of time as part of a design for assembly approach, he says.
Furthermore, says Greenslade, if you are going from conventional to lean manufacturing you might want to consider selecting proprietary fasteners as part of the transition. For example, he says, combined screw and washer assemblies can reduce the number of components being handled and simplify assembly operations, whether by hand or machine. And the use of thread-forming screws, where they create matching threads as they are assembled, is not only faster but it eliminates the possibility of cross-threading and can give you a more secure joint, he says.
In the case of products such as home appliances with substantial use of sheet metal, there is a growing incentive to reduce the gauge of stock but this smart cost-saving step can make conventional fastening systems prone to failure. It can get to the point where standard sheet metal screws no longer work well and that is a place where proprietary designs can help, too, says Greenslade.
Proprietary screws might cost double or triple on a per unit basis but if you get a more secure assembly with less labor, there is actually a tremendous saving, he says.
Furthermore, he says, there is an increasing number of alternatives to threaded fasteners for some kinds of assemblies including hook and loop (better known by the trade name Velcro®) and a wide range of adhesives. Thats why Im saying designers should stop, back up and look at how things will go together before they finalize their designs. Unfortunately, these things are usually an afterthought, which means companies are often saddled with ongoing, unnecessary costs, he says.
Likewise, says Greenslade, rivets arent used as often as they could be. People are focused on threaded fasteners, which are great if you want something to be serviceable, but many assemblies arent intended to be serviced so rivets, clinch nuts and other fasteners that work with a simple punch as opposed to a carefully gauged torque can be great alternatives.
In conclusion, he says, the offsetting cost in labor savings usually outweighs the difference in the cost for proprietary fasteners.
You can go through college and even get a Ph.D. in engineering and probably not have more than three class hours devoted to fasteners, says Greenslade. The fasteners typically amount to something like three percent of the total cost of a typical assembly but the impact they have on assembly and quality is way out of proportion to that cost.


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As with many mental health conditions, the exact cause of panic disorder is not fully understood.
It is thought that panic disorder is probably caused by a combination of physical and psychological factors. Some of these factors are outlined below.
A trauma, such as bereavement, can sometimes trigger feelings of panic and anxiety. These feelings may be obvious soon after the event, or they may be triggered unexpectedly years later.
Having a close family member with panic disorder may increase your risk of developing the condition. However, the precise nature of the risk is not yet known.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals that occur naturally in the brain. It is thought that if you have an imbalance of these chemicals, it may increase your risk of developing conditions such as panic disorder.
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Poll: How many total hours were you on the mat for aikido training in the past seven days?
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Re: Hours on the mat?
Originally posted by Bruce Baker
How many actual hours of practice for one week, do you actually learn, or benefit in the arena of proficiency in acquiring more acute skills in Aikido?
Every hour. Learning, consolidating, training. I come away with something every single lesson, whether I'm teaching, training or sitting by the side of the mat with a broken foot.
I don't have enough time. Even if I'm really lucky, I've only got another 40-50 years left. I've wasted so much training time already that it'll be really hard to understand
in what's left.
No time to waste. Not on chatting to my partner in the middle of class, not on practicing sloppy techniques, not on bad ukemi, teachers who show off or students who don't want to learn. Not on 5-minute water breaks, pee breaks, Oh-no-I'm-starting-to-sweat breaks or I'm-a-dan-grade-so-I-can-sit-this-out breaks. No time to waste on 'Is my hair OK?' or 'Is my gi straight?'. No time to chat up the women or play with the lads. No time to waste at all.
P.S. You're all slackers
(Only 18 hours this week - I skipped a couple of lessons)
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A world-renowned mathematics professor at The University of Texas-Pan American was killed Monday night, Aug. 27 in a traffic collision in Edinburg.
Dr. Joseph Wiener, 62, who specialized in the area of differential equations, was involved in a collision with an 18-wheeler in the 3800 block of McColl Road at 9:30 p.m. He was taken to McAllen Medical Center, where he died.
"The University of Texas-Pan American has suffered a tremendous loss in the death of Dr. Joseph Wiener. Dr. Wiener was a legend as a researcher, as a mathematics professor and as a mentor to many students during his long tenure," said UTPA President Dr. Miguel A. Nevárez.
"His work in differential equations brought world-wide attention to Dr. Wiener and to the University, but his greatest impact was to the many students he taught and mentored. As one former student said, 'He was tough, but when you completed his course, you knew everything you needed to know about that area of study.' Many of us here at the University are saddened by the loss of this unique and wonderful individual and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family - his wife, Bella, and children, Lilia and Edward."
Wiener, who taught at UTPA for 22 years, was equally known for his research in the area of mathematics education as in his work with differential equations, said Dr. Miguel Paredes, interim chair of the Department of Mathematics.
"He was one of my closest friends as well as a colleague," said Paredes. "Joseph was always aware and interested in what you were doing and would help, even if it was not a project in which he was directly involved.
"And, when it came to teaching, he was one of the greatest. His students looked up to him. Because of his special attributes, personally and professionally, his absence leaves a huge void. He was truly a legend."
Wiener immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1978. Prior to joining the UTPA faculty, Wiener had headed one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious mathematics departments for 10 years - Vitebsk Institute of Technology in the White Russian Republic - before leaving the country.
While at UTPA, Wiener was widely published and also served as an editor in international mathematics journals and received several grants for his research.
The study of differential equations deals with the measurement and prediction of change - particularly in regard to time and space - and is critical in engineering, physics, electronics, mechanics, aeronautics, biotechnology and nearly all science fields.
He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Bella, his daughter, Lilia, 36, and son, Edward, 31.
Donations to the Joseph Weiner Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics can be made online at bronccountry.utpa.edu/JWM.


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Android is the first mass-produced consumer-market open source mobile platform that allows developers to easily create applications and users to readily install them. However, giving users the ability to install third-party applications poses serious security concerns. While the existing security mechanism in Android allows a mobile phone user to see which resources an application requires, she has no choice but to allow access to all the requested permissions if she wishes to use the applications. There is no way of granting some permissions and denying others. Moreover, there is no way of restricting the usage of resources based on runtime constraints such as the location of the device or the number of times a resource has been previously used.


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Can Virginia Democrats Salvage a Statewide Victory?
To state the obvious, Republican Bob McDonnell looks increasingly likely to be the next governor of Virginia. McDonnell leads by nine points over Democrat Creigh ...
To state the obvious, Republican Bob McDonnell looks increasingly likely to be the next governor of Virginia. McDonnell leads by nine points over Democrat Creigh Deeds in the latest Washington Post poll, a result that confirms that the Republican has bounced back into a solid lead.
While I can think of at least a few candidates who blew a lead that large in a month, it doesn't happen often. If Deeds loses, will Republicans sweep all three statewide elected offices in Virginia?
Currently, the polls indicate that they will. Republican Bill Bolling leads Democrat Jody Wagner in the race for lieutenant governor. Republican Ken Cuccinelli leads Democrat Steve Shannon in the race for Attorney General. Here's a handy chart of the last four polls, from Public Policy Polling, SurveyUSA, the Washington Post and Mason Dixon, that reported on all three of the races. In each case, the Republican's total is listed first -- because the Republicans consistently lead.
However, I still think it's not altogether unlikely that the Democrats will win at least one of the constitutional offices in Virginia. Barring a dramatic turn of events, that candidate won't be Deeds. Bill Bolling is the incumbent lieutenant governor, so it seems quite unlikely he will lose, even though Democrat Jody Wagner is a perfectly capable candidate (she ran a close race for Congress earlier in the decade and then served in top positions in the Mark Warner and Tim Kaine administrations).
That leaves the race for attorney general. And, there are two reasons to suspect that Shannon, a state delegate, has the best chance of anyone on the Democratic ticket.
The first reason is ideology. Cuccinelli, a state senator, is regarded as one of the most conservative legislators in Virginia.
Now, of course, persuading voters of that point won't be an easy task. Democrats refer to just about every Republican as an extreme right winger. Republicans call all Democrats either liberals (increasingly that one is reserved for Blue Dogs) or socialists (anyone to the left of the Blue Dogs).
The parties have cried wolf so often that voters are pretty numb to allegations that candidates are out of the mainstream. At the very least, you need a compelling, relevant, recent example of the candidate's extremism to make an impression with voters. Nonetheless, Shannon could benefit from Cuccinelli's conservatism if he starts racking up a bunch of endorsements. The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce backed Shannon, even as it supported McDonnell.
The second reason, I think, is more important: money. As of last month, Shannon had twice as much campaign cash as Cuccinelli. Unlike in the governor's race, in the downballot races voters still don't know much about the candidates. Opinions could change quite quickly, if Shannon can get his message out and Cuccinelli can't.
That said, there are also two reasons to expect Cuccinelli to win. First of all, he's no slouch. He's won tough elections in Democratic-leaning Fairfax County. He's been very active responding to the Supreme Court's ruling on expert testimony earlier this year, which has helped him seem prepared for the job.
The other reason is that the particular way Deeds is losing is making a Republican sweep much more likely. McDonnell leads in large measure because Republicans are more motivated to vote than Democrats. Facing an electorate that's likely to lean Republican, Shannon remains an underdog.
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Few places exist in the world today where a government and a people get a chance to sketch their future on a blank page. Myanmar is in that position. With sanctions lifting, markets and borders opening, the fate of 63 million people hangs in the balance.
Etched in the history of Myanmar are challenges but also opportunities. Formerly known as Burma, the country gained independence in 1948 after 62 years of British colonial rule. A brief period of representative government was followed by 50 years of brutal, quasi-Marxist military rule. During that time, Burma spiralled from being one of Southeast Asia's most prosperous economies into the poorest, with a closed, backward, repressive society. Unemployment is 40%, the poverty rate is 38%, and Myanmar has by far the lowest GDP per person in the ASEAN region.
In many ways, the World Economic Forum on East Asia, which was recently held in Nay Pyi Taw's outsized convention centre, was Myanmar's coming-out party, showcasing the culture, food and more open politics that have been on display since opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010. In the past year, Prime Minister Thein Sein, head of the nominally democratic government, has welcomed world leaders, including President Obama, and has promised business executives who want to invest in Myanmar's future that he will bring good governance and freer trade with ASEAN neighbours.
During the meeting, Suu Kyi boldly announced that she wants to be president, with one of the ministers in Thein Sein's opposing regime sitting beside her. A constitutional amendment will be necessary, but she's obviously determined and projects confidence. Such audacity once cost her freedom. Despite the "Gangnam-style" bravado in the streets and Yangon salons, the conversation is still about "reversibility" and whether the military dominated regime can remain committed to economic and political reforms. But once you open your borders and let in the world, the pressure builds to lean forward.
With white sandy beaches and dazzling Buddhist temples, Myanmar welcomed 1 million tourists in 2013 and hopes to triple the number of international visitors by 2015 with smarter visa policies. Those goals compare to 22 million tourists in neighbouring Thailand, a country with roughly the same population and smaller land mass. But that's still 3 million reasons against retrenchment. At the Forum meeting, ASEAN Tourism Ministers agreed to enact visa-free travel within their region as soon as possible, so that pilgrims and tourists can cross the border more easily. All those visitors will bring GDP and new jobs to Myanmar's unemployed.
The journey to democracy and free markets is not without its challenges. But across the globe, and at the stunning Buddhist pagodas in this lovely country, people are praying that the government gets it right and that vision comes true.
Author: Kathleen Matthews is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Global Communications and Public Affairs Officer at Marriott International, USA. She is also the Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Travel and Tourism.
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His mom's maiden name is Grontkowski. His mother-in-law was originally a Sadowski.
So when Mayor Tim DeGeeter serves as Grand Marshall of the Polish Constitution Day parade on May 4, he's not doing it just because he's Mayor. He's legit.
He grew up calling his grandmother "Busia" and took part in many Polish family traditions. He's been proud to participate in the Constitution Day events in past years, but this year will be a little more personal.
"I'm really honored to have been asked to be Grand Marshall, and I'll have my family right there with me," DeGeeter said. "This is really special."
Constitution Day events begin Friday and include Miss Polonia and Jr. Miss Polonia pageants, the Polish American Congress Happy Hour, and the Polonia Ball. The weekend culminates on Sunday with Mass at St. Charles with the Parade on Ridge Road and after-party event following.
Last year's parade and after-party event was the largest yet in Parma, and organizers are expecting an even bigger turnout this year.
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Tottenham Hotspur flop David Bentley rejoined former club Blackburn Rovers on loan on Friday and Manchester City's Dutch teenager Karim Rekik has also moved to Ewood Park on a short-term deal.
Winger Bentley was Tottenham's record signing when he arrived from Blackburn for 17 million pounds in 2008 but failed to make any impact at White Hart Lane and has spent loan spells at Birmingham City, West Ham United and Russia's FC Rostov.
The 28-year-old, who has seven England caps, could make his debut against boyhood club Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday, mid-table Blackburn said in a statement.
Defender Rekik, 18, made his Premier League debut for City in December and has also joined Rovers until the end of the season.
Rekik, who plays for the Netherlands Under-19 side, spent the end of last season on loan to Portsmouth.
"I'm happy to say that I'm going on loan to Blackburn Rovers and be part of the team," Rekik said on Twitter.
"Hope to win many games and learn for my future at Man City."
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Nurses' union president Debbie Forward speaks at the statutory review of the workers' compensation system in St. John's Tuesday morning. Forward was pushing for tweaks to the system, and more money for injured workers. — Photo by James McLeod/The Telegram
Workers' compensation advocates were out in full force Tuesday, pressing a government-appointed panel on ways to expand and tweak the system for people injured on the job.
Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses' Union president Debbie Forward said that one of the major issues within her union is that the workers' compensation system just doesn't pay enough when a nurse is injured on the job.
"We are so far behind the rest of the country that when you really look at the numbers, it gets to be quite embarrassing in some ways," she said. "For a registered nurse who's on the top scale — which are the majority of our members — if that individual is off on workers' compensation, they will receive approximately 50 per cent of their salary when they're off on workers' compensation."
The workers' compensation statutory review panel is struck every five years to review legislation and regulations around the system and to make recommendations to improve things.
On Monday, at the start of the three-day consultation session in St. John's, the statutory review panel heard from a series of employers' groups calling on the government to make workers' compensation rules more strict. On Tuesday, labour groups, politicians and individuals presented a different picture.
Presenters painted a picture of a system giving injured workers low payments, with long delays and an arbitration system that leaves workers vulnerable to having their benefits cut off.
Fish, Food and Allied Workers' union president Earle McCurdy, speaking about his own industry, dismissed employers' concerns, saying they're just focused on the bottom line.
"All I've heard from them is, how do we crack down on claimants and cut down on costs?" McCurdy said. "To be blunt about it, if they spent half as much time promoting healthy and safe practices in the workplace as they do fighting compensation claims by their employees, we'd have a safer industry."
Nancy MacLean, speaking for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said one of the problems it runs into is that many workers don't know what their rights are, and what they're legally required to do when they're injured on the job.
"It's extremely common. People don't know what their legal responsibility is when it comes to filing or (reporting) injury in the workplace," she said.
Liberal MHA Andrew Parsons also had some issues when it comes to legal requirements.
He said one of the biggest complaints he hears is that the Workplace Health Safety and Compensation Commission, which runs the system, is breaking the law.
The legislation says that if an injured worker applies for a formal review of their case, they should get a decision from the review commissioner within 60 days.
"That's not being followed. I've got more than one constituent that is still waiting at least eight months to have their matter dealt with," Parsons said. "They're breaking their own legislation."
New Democrat Leader Lorraine Michael also presented to the statutory review panel Tuesday, and she had complaints about the review process too. She said by the time an injured worker gets to that point, they're entering into what's almost like a court process, but they usually can't hire a lawyer to represent them.
"Everything is on the line for them, and they're usually living in very dire straits by this time," she said. "They're coming to their MHA because they feel desperate."
The statutory review continues at the Ramada Hotel in St. John's today.
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